Live National Weather Service alerts, NEXRAD weather radar, USGS river and stream gauges, Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks, Local Storm Reports, 5-day forecast, air quality, and severe-weather notifications for Alachua County, FL (FIPS 12001) in Florida. Free, no login, no ads.
Alachua County, FL is one of the counties of Florida covered by BloomWX. Alachua County, FL has a population of approximately 279,729 (2022 estimate, US Census Bureau). The county covers 875.6 square miles of land area. The county seat is Gainesville.
Gainesville, Alachua, High Springs, Newberry, Hawthorne.
Alachua County, FL is served by the National Weather Service JAX forecast office for warnings, watches, advisories, and decision-support services. The same office produces the Hazardous Weather Outlook, Area Forecast Discussion, and DSS briefing packets you'll see on the BloomWX dashboard for this county.
BloomWX also covers the surrounding counties: Marion County, FL, Levy County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Union County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL.
BloomWX is a free weather operations dashboard for SKYWARN storm spotters, emergency management volunteers, ham radio nets, and anyone in Alachua County, FL who needs the official NWS data without the consumer-app cruft. Data is pulled directly from weather.gov and refreshes every 60 seconds. Sources: National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, USGS Water Data, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Open-Meteo (Air Quality), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program.
Read the BloomWX learn library for beginner-friendly explainers on every dashboard surface, including SPC convective outlooks (TSTM/MRGL/SLGT/ENH/MDT/HIGH), NEXRAD radar, USGS flood gauges, and WPC surface analysis charts. See all Florida county weather dashboards on BloomWX.