Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of South Florida

USFFLPublic R1USF Alert~50,000 students

Cases: 6
Alerts: 14
Verbatim: 36%
Span: 2017–2026

Official alert policy

How USF says it will alert — when and how AlertUSF activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

6 cases · 5 of 14 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

fire: 2026-05-02A Two-Alarm Fire Tore Through USF St. Petersburg's 80-Year-Old Marine Science Lab and Likely Destroyed Decades of Researchemergency notificationverbatim
missing person: 2026-04-16Two USF Doctoral Students Vanish on a Wednesday in April: A Missing-Student Notification Becomes a Double Homicidemissing student2 killedverbatim
suspicious package: 2026-04-03A Suspicious Package on Fowler Fields Drew Tampa's Bomb Squad Onto USF's Tampa Campusemergency notification

2025

swatting: 2025-08-3090-Minute Alert Delay: USF Library Evacuated After Swatting Call, But AlertUSF Stayed Silent Until 6:20 PMemergency notificationverbatim

2024

hurricane: 2024-10-09Hurricane Milton Forces Week-Long USF Closure, Floods Campus Between Marshall Center and Bookstoreemergency notificationverbatim

2017

hurricane: 2017-09-06Three Campuses, Six Days Closed: USF Hurricane Irma Shutdown Spans Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manateeemergency notification

By incident type

What USF has alerted about

Weather · 2 Fire · 1 Missing Person · 1 suspicious package · 1 Swatting · 1

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