Alert archive / Georgia

Weather alerts in Rockdale County, Georgia

2,914 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rockdale County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,914
Warnings
799
Watches
587
Advisories
534
Busiest year
2008184 alerts
Average year
71over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 25% of tornado reports in Rockdale County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 3 minutes before, and 84% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%0
200920100%0
201010100%0
201110100%0
201310100%0
201710100%0
201810100%0
2019110%0
202310100%0
20242150%425%3 min
20255180%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814657%475%21 min
200914750%3100%21 min
201040100%0
201110730%0
20127529%1100%28 min
2013770%250%18 min
201410730%10%
201514843%1100%22 min
201612118%944%15 min
20176517%450%30 min
201810730%250%13 min
20198625%944%12 min
202010910%1669%18 min
20217614%6100%19 min
20224325%4100%34 min
2023252020%1794%35 min
20248713%10%
2025161319%1984%19 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
201410100%0
20152150%1100%117 min
201610100%0
201710100%0
201810100%0
20196433%1100%112 min
20203233%10%
20213233%0
202220100%0
2023330%0
20245420%0
2025110%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 11, 5:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFC3 hr
Sep 5, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC48 min
Sep 5, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC24 min
Aug 14, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC33 min
Aug 5, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC15 min
Jul 29, 12:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC36 min
Jul 27, 10:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFC99 min
Jul 19, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC47 min
Jul 17, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC29 min
Jul 17, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC38 min
Jun 18, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC43 min
Apr 18, 8:41 PM EDTRed Flag WarningFFC23 hr

Nearby

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.