High Wind Watches in Georgia
25 high wind watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 25
- Busiest year
- 20064 high wind watches
- Average year
- 2over 13 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rabun County11
- Habersham County8
- Dawson County7
- Lumpkin County7
- White County7
- Fannin County6
- Gilmer County6
- Towns County6
- Union County6
- Murray County5
- Franklin County4
- Hart County4
- Stephens County4
- Elbert County3
- Dade County3
- Pickens County3
- Walker County3
- Chattooga County2
- Burke County2
- Bibb County2
- Bleckley County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Crawford County2
- Crisp County2
- Dodge County2
- Dooly County2
- Houston County2
- Laurens County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Montgomery County2
- Peach County2
- Pulaski County2
- Schley County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumter County2
- Taylor County2
- Telfair County2
- Toombs County2
- Treutlen County2
67 more counties
- Twiggs County2
- Webster County2
- Wheeler County2
- Wilcox County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Catoosa County1
- Whitfield County1
- Columbia County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Richmond County1
- Baldwin County1
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Butts County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Coweta County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Emanuel County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Fulton County1
- Glascock County1
- Gordon County1
- Greene County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Hall County1
- Hancock County1
- Haralson County1
- Harris County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Lamar County1
- Madison County1
- Meriwether County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Muscogee County1
- Newton County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Paulding County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Putnam County1
- Rockdale County1
- Spalding County1
- Talbot County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Troup County1
- Upson County1
- Walton County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wilkes County1
Nearby
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.