Alert archive / Georgia / 1997
Weather alerts in Georgia, March 1997
82 weather alerts in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 82
- Warnings
- 72
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 29, 199720 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 8:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattooga, Dade | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 57 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Whitfield | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 6:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 6:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 6:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 7:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 26 min |
| Mar 5, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 4:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 46 min |
| Mar 13, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 5:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 5:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 28 min |
| Mar 13, 5:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee | 32 min |
| Mar 13, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 35 min |
| Mar 13, 5:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Talbot | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 35 min |
| Mar 13, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Butts, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Clayton and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 27 min |
| Mar 13, 10:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 53 min |
| Mar 14, 1:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rabun | 5 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 43 min |
| Mar 25, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 6:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 7:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 48 min |
| Mar 25, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 8:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 12:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon, Pickens | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 10 min |
| Mar 28, 11:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 12:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 12:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 39 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 12:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 21 min |
| Mar 29, 1:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 2:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 2:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 30 min |
| Mar 29, 2:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 2:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 3:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 3:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 5:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Taylor | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 6:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 12:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 12:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 12:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 6:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 6:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Peach | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Wilkinson | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 8:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 10:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 35 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 | 62 |
| Tornado Warning | 6 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bartow County9
- Murray County7
- Union County7
- Cherokee County6
- Cobb County6
- Chattooga County6
- Coweta County6
- Floyd County6
- Gilmer County6
- Gordon County6
- Harris County6
- Talbot County6
- Towns County6
- Whitfield County6
- Dade County5
- Clayton County5
- Dawson County5
- Fannin County5
- Fayette County5
- Fulton County5
- Heard County5
- Lumpkin County5
- Meriwether County5
- Muscogee County5
- Pickens County5
- Walton County5
- Paulding County4
- Barrow County4
- Carroll County4
- Catoosa County4
- Douglas County4
- Forsyth County4
- Gwinnett County4
- Habersham County4
- Hall County4
- Oconee County4
- Pike County4
- Rabun County4
- Stephens County4
- Taylor County4
88 more counties
- Walker County4
- White County4
- Stewart County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Macon County4
- Marion County4
- Banks County3
- Bibb County3
- Butts County3
- Clarke County3
- Crawford County3
- DeKalb County3
- Franklin County3
- Haralson County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Lamar County3
- Monroe County3
- Newton County3
- Peach County3
- Polk County3
- Rockdale County3
- Spalding County3
- Troup County3
- Upson County3
- Grady County3
- Jasper County2
- Morgan County2
- Madison County2
- Baker County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Decatur County2
- Dougherty County2
- Early County2
- Lee County2
- Miller County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Schley County2
- Sumter County2
- Terrell County2
- Webster County2
- Coffee County2
- Greene County2
- Jones County2
- Emanuel County2
- Montgomery County2
- Screven County2
- Toombs County2
- Hart County1
- Mitchell County1
- Seminole County1
- Elbert County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Lanier County1
- Clinch County1
- Lincoln County1
- Brooks County1
- Lowndes County1
- Thomas County1
- Bleckley County1
- Laurens County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Johnson County1
- Washington County1
- Appling County1
- Atkinson County1
- Bacon County1
- Brantley County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Burke County1
- Candler County1
- Chatham County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Glynn County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Jenkins County1
- Liberty County1
- Long County1
- McIntosh County1
- Pierce County1
- Tattnall County1
- Treutlen County1
- Wayne County1
- Wheeler 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.