we have good Doppler radar coverage with local TV station that reflect real time GPS locations... as well as NWS at Ruskin, just south of Tampa... I have a pretty good Reecom weather alert radio

we get some spun off the rear edge of cold fronts and from hurricane feeder bands, but anything bigger than an EF1 is pretty rare

as a 60 year resident of the Florida Gulf coast, most of my hurricane preps are covered... I replace stored water and gasoline at the first of hurricane season