Alert archive / Georgia / 1997
Weather alerts in Georgia, April 1997
133 weather alerts in April 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 133
- Warnings
- 120
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 22, 199749 alerts
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By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 35 min |
| Apr 21, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Apr 21, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Quitman | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 25 min |
| Apr 21, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 27 min |
| Apr 21, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 29 min |
| Apr 21, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Upson | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 34 min |
| Apr 21, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Apr 21, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 51 min |
| Apr 21, 10:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 12:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 58 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 41 min |
| Apr 22, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fayette, Fulton | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Monroe, Newton | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 26 min |
| Apr 22, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McDuffie | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Washington | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia | 66 min |
| Apr 22, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 21 min |
| Apr 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Effingham | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 34 min |
| Apr 22, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 10:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 27 min |
| Apr 22, 11:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 11:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 11:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 11:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Treutlen | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler, Tattnall | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 3:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 51 min |
| Apr 23, 3:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 4:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 4:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 8:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Spalding | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 2:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 66 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 4:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 5:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 5:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Ware | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 11:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Clarke, Columbia, Effingham and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 20 min |
| Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Walker | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Stephens | 51 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 113 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fulton County8
- Wilcox County7
- Jackson County7
- Cobb County7
- Ware County7
- Cherokee County6
- Upson County6
- Crisp County6
- Dodge County6
- Evans County6
- Jeff Davis County6
- Laurens County6
- Montgomery County6
- Tattnall County6
- Toombs County6
- Wheeler County6
- Clinch County6
- Forsyth County5
- Barrow County5
- Walton County5
- Hall County5
- Catoosa County5
- Whitfield County5
- Murray County5
- Berrien County5
- Clay County5
- Quitman County5
- Walker County5
- Gilmer County5
- Gordon County5
- Madison County5
- Twiggs County5
- Greene County5
- Paulding County5
- Gwinnett County5
- Oglethorpe County5
- Clarke County5
- Elbert County5
- Oconee County5
- Carroll County5
119 more counties
- Douglas County5
- Seminole County5
- Bulloch County5
- Candler County5
- Dooly County5
- Emanuel County5
- Lee County5
- Macon County5
- Pulaski County5
- Telfair County5
- Treutlen County5
- Mitchell County5
- Camden County5
- Coffee County5
- Liberty County5
- Long County5
- McIntosh County5
- Wayne County5
- Monroe County4
- Banks County4
- Bartow County4
- Franklin County4
- Habersham County4
- Stephens County4
- Wilkinson County4
- Baldwin County4
- Polk County4
- Calhoun County4
- Early County4
- Heard County4
- Meriwether County4
- Randolph County4
- Schley County4
- Spalding County4
- Stewart County4
- Bleckley County4
- Houston County4
- Jefferson County4
- Jenkins County4
- Screven County4
- Terrell County4
- Effingham County4
- Decatur County4
- Grady County4
- Appling County4
- Atkinson County4
- Bacon County4
- Brantley County4
- Brooks County4
- Bryan County4
- Charlton County4
- Colquitt County4
- Cook County4
- Echols County4
- Glynn County4
- Lanier County4
- Lowndes County4
- Pierce County4
- Thomas County4
- Tift County4
- Worth County4
- Jasper County3
- Chattooga County3
- Dade County3
- Dawson County3
- Fannin County3
- Floyd County3
- Hart County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Pickens County3
- Union County3
- White County3
- Crawford County3
- Bibb County3
- Jones County3
- Wilkes County3
- Butts County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Clayton County3
- Coweta County3
- DeKalb County3
- Fayette County3
- Harris County3
- Henry County3
- Lamar County3
- Marion County3
- Muscogee County3
- Newton County3
- Pike County3
- Talbot County3
- Taylor County3
- Webster County3
- Burke County3
- Columbia County3
- Glascock County3
- Hancock County3
- Johnson County3
- Lincoln County3
- McDuffie County3
- Morgan County3
- Peach County3
- Putnam County3
- Richmond County3
- Sumter County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Baker County3
- Dougherty County3
- Miller County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Chatham County3
- Irwin County3
- Turner County3
- Rabun County2
- Towns County2
- Haralson County2
- Rockdale County2
- Troup County2
- Taliaferro County2
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.