Alert archive / Georgia / 1997
Weather alerts in Georgia, May 1997
145 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 145
- Warnings
- 133
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 199771 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| May 2, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 46 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 43 min |
| May 2, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 54 min |
| May 2, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 37 min |
| May 2, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 34 min |
| May 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 48 min |
| May 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 46 min |
| May 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 46 min |
| May 2, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 34 min |
| May 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 21 min |
| May 2, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 25 min |
| May 2, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 52 min |
| May 2, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 52 min |
| May 2, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 28 min |
| May 2, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| May 2, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 45 min |
| May 2, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 26 min |
| May 2, 10:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 41 min |
| May 2, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Lumpkin | 37 min |
| May 2, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 41 min |
| May 2, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, White | 30 min |
| May 2, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 39 min |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 45 min |
| May 3, 1:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| May 3, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 42 min |
| May 3, 2:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 33 min |
| May 3, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 44 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 3, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 40 min |
| May 3, 6:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 37 min |
| May 3, 6:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 28 min |
| May 3, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 3, 7:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 42 min |
| May 3, 7:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 44 min |
| May 3, 8:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 43 min |
| May 3, 8:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Troup | 51 min |
| May 3, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 72 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 8:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 53 min |
| May 3, 8:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 47 min |
| May 3, 9:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 47 min |
| May 3, 9:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 46 min |
| May 3, 9:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 32 min |
| May 3, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 36 min |
| May 3, 10:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 38 min |
| May 3, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 37 min |
| May 3, 10:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 53 min |
| May 3, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 33 min |
| May 3, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 39 min |
| May 3, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 29 min |
| May 3, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 42 min |
| May 3, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 53 min |
| May 3, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 46 min |
| May 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 37 min |
| May 3, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 60 min |
| May 3, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 53 min |
| May 3, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 50 min |
| May 3, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 42 min |
| May 3, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 41 min |
| May 3, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 54 min |
| May 9, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 46 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 41 min |
| May 9, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 45 min |
| May 9, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 36 min |
| May 9, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar | 32 min |
| May 9, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 51 min |
| May 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Candler, Chattahoochee and 50 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 35 min |
| May 9, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 37 min |
| May 9, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 41 min |
| May 9, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 62 min |
| May 9, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee | 53 min |
| May 9, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 38 min |
| May 9, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 37 min |
| May 9, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 59 min |
| May 9, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 26 min |
| May 9, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Schley | 38 min |
| May 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 38 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 27 min |
| May 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 25 min |
| May 15, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 46 min |
| May 15, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 31 min |
| May 15, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 34 min |
| May 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 26 min |
| May 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 63 min |
| May 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 46 min |
| May 24, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 42 min |
| May 24, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 41 min |
| May 24, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 37 min |
| May 24, 9:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 38 min |
| May 24, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 38 min |
| May 26, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 30 min |
| May 26, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 33 min |
| May 27, 1:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 31 min |
| May 27, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 15 min |
| May 27, 2:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler | 47 min |
| May 27, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 45 min |
| May 27, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 44 min |
| May 27, 8:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 26 min |
| May 27, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 36 min |
| May 27, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 49 min |
| May 27, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 39 min |
| May 27, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 29 min |
| May 27, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 27 min |
| May 27, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 32 min |
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 64 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 34 min |
| May 27, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Quitman | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 42 min |
| May 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 38 min |
| May 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Upson | 49 min |
| May 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 60 min |
| May 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 37 min |
| May 27, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 52 min |
| May 27, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 62 min |
| May 27, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 59 min |
| May 27, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 51 min |
| May 27, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 28 min |
| May 27, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Echols | 56 min |
| May 31, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 53 min |
| May 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long, Tattnall | 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 | 124 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 8 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Meriwether County11
- Upson County10
- Pike County9
- Troup County9
- Chattooga County8
- Floyd County8
- Henry County8
- Lamar County8
- Monroe County8
- Newton County8
- Walker County7
- Gordon County7
- Coweta County7
- Fulton County7
- Jones County7
- Spalding County7
- Muscogee County7
- Taylor County7
- Murray County6
- Gilmer County6
- Bartow County6
- Butts County6
- Clayton County6
- DeKalb County6
- Haralson County6
- Harris County6
- Heard County6
- Jasper County6
- Polk County6
- Rockdale County6
- Talbot County6
- Bibb County6
- Candler County6
- Dooly County6
- Houston County6
- Johnson County6
- Pulaski County6
- Telfair County6
- Wheeler County6
- Clinch County6
117 more counties
- Whitfield County5
- Carroll County5
- Cobb County5
- Dawson County5
- Fayette County5
- Morgan County5
- Pickens County5
- Putnam County5
- Bryan County5
- Bulloch County5
- Chattahoochee County5
- Dodge County5
- Effingham County5
- Macon County5
- Marion County5
- Peach County5
- Quitman County5
- Schley County5
- Screven County5
- Tattnall County5
- Twiggs County5
- Chatham County5
- Coffee County5
- Jeff Davis County5
- Dade County4
- Baldwin County4
- Cherokee County4
- Douglas County4
- Forsyth County4
- Gwinnett County4
- Jackson County4
- Lumpkin County4
- Oconee County4
- Paulding County4
- Walton County4
- Bleckley County4
- Crawford County4
- Crisp County4
- Emanuel County4
- Jenkins County4
- Laurens County4
- Lee County4
- Montgomery County4
- Stewart County4
- Sumter County4
- Toombs County4
- Turner County4
- Wilcox County4
- Atkinson County4
- Bacon County4
- Brooks County4
- Camden County4
- Echols County4
- Pierce County4
- Ware County4
- Wayne County4
- Catoosa County3
- Fannin County3
- Banks County3
- Barrow County3
- Clarke County3
- Greene County3
- Habersham County3
- Hall County3
- Madison County3
- Rabun County3
- Union County3
- White County3
- Clay County3
- Columbia County3
- Evans County3
- Glascock County3
- Jefferson County3
- McDuffie County3
- Randolph County3
- Richmond County3
- Taliaferro County3
- Terrell County3
- Treutlen County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Webster County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Appling County3
- Baker County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Berrien County3
- Calhoun County3
- Cook County3
- Dougherty County3
- Irwin County3
- Liberty County3
- Long County3
- Lowndes County3
- Tift County3
- Worth County3
- Early County3
- Franklin County2
- Stephens County2
- Towns County2
- Burke County2
- Hancock County2
- Lincoln County2
- Wilkes County2
- Brantley County2
- Charlton County2
- Colquitt County2
- Glynn County2
- Lanier County2
- McIntosh County2
- Mitchell County2
- Thomas County2
- Decatur County1
- Grady County1
- Miller County1
- Hart County1
- Oglethorpe 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.