Alert archive / Georgia / 1997
Weather alerts in Georgia, January 1997
56 weather alerts in January 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 56
- Warnings
- 44
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 5, 199718 alerts
Over time
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 1:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 2:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 27 min |
| Jan 5, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 4:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 29 min |
| Jan 5, 4:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 43 min |
| Jan 5, 5:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| Jan 5, 5:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 38 min |
| Jan 5, 5:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Newton | 32 min |
| Jan 5, 6:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Crawford and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 7:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 7:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 8:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge | 26 min |
| Jan 5, 8:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 54 min |
| Jan 5, 9:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 27 min |
| Jan 8, 11:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 38 min |
| Jan 8, 11:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph | 38 min |
| Jan 8, 12:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 35 min |
| Jan 8, 12:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 31 min |
| Jan 8, 12:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 1:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 36 min |
| Jan 8, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Echols, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 16, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 16, 4:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Screven | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 39 min |
| Jan 24, 10:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 25 min |
| Jan 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill and 76 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 48 min |
| Jan 24, 10:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 44 min |
| Jan 24, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 35 min |
| Jan 24, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 45 min |
| Jan 24, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Fulton | 49 min |
| Jan 24, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 27 min |
| Jan 24, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 45 min |
| Jan 24, 10:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 53 min |
| Jan 24, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 36 min |
| Jan 24, 11:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson | 23 min |
| Jan 24, 11:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 31 min |
| Jan 25, 12:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, White | 27 min |
| Jan 25, 12:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 35 min |
| Jan 25, 12:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Jan 28, 3:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 28 min |
| Jan 28, 4:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 27 min |
| Jan 28, 4:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 28 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 | 44 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Troup County8
- Fulton County7
- Bartow County6
- Cobb County6
- Coweta County6
- Paulding County6
- Thomas County6
- Carroll County5
- Cherokee County5
- Clayton County5
- Douglas County5
- Fayette County5
- Hall County5
- Haralson County5
- Harris County5
- Meriwether County5
- Muscogee County5
- Sumter County5
- Decatur County5
- Grady County5
- Seminole County5
- Early County5
- Chattooga County4
- Butts County4
- Dawson County4
- DeKalb County4
- Forsyth County4
- Gordon County4
- Gwinnett County4
- Heard County4
- Henry County4
- Newton County4
- Pickens County4
- Polk County4
- Spalding County4
- Jasper County4
- Bleckley County4
- Dooly County4
- Randolph County4
- Terrell County4
93 more counties
- Baker County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Stewart County4
- Dade County3
- Murray County3
- Walker County3
- Whitfield County3
- Banks County3
- Barrow County3
- Clarke County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Gilmer County3
- Hart County3
- Jackson County3
- Lamar County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Madison County3
- Morgan County3
- Oconee County3
- Pike County3
- Rockdale County3
- Talbot County3
- Upson County3
- Walton County3
- White County3
- Baldwin County3
- Hancock County3
- Houston County3
- Monroe County3
- Oglethorpe County3
- Pulaski County3
- Dodge County3
- Webster County3
- Lee County3
- Colquitt County3
- Miller County3
- Mitchell County3
- Brooks County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Dougherty County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Quitman County3
- Elbert County2
- Habersham County2
- Rabun County2
- Union County2
- Bibb County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
- Jones County2
- Laurens County2
- Peach County2
- Putnam County2
- Taylor County2
- Twiggs County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Macon County2
- Lowndes County2
- Cook County2
- Berrien County2
- Marion County2
- Catoosa County1
- Fannin County1
- Stephens County1
- Towns County1
- Burke County1
- Columbia County1
- Emanuel County1
- Glascock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jenkins County1
- Johnson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Richmond County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Treutlen County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wilkes County1
- Echols County1
- Screven County1
- Ben Hill County1
- Crisp County1
- Irwin County1
- Schley County1
- Wilcox County1
- Atkinson County1
- Lanier County1
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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.