Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, May 2012
135 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2012. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 135
- Busiest day
- May 6, 201235 severe thunderstorm warnings
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By day
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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 1, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 54 min |
| May 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 38 min |
| May 3, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 39 min |
| May 6, 10:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| May 6, 12:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 37 min |
| May 6, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 52 min |
| May 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 40 min |
| May 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 42 min |
| May 6, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 49 min |
| May 6, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 3 more | 52 min |
| May 6, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 29 min |
| May 6, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 39 min |
| May 6, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 48 min |
| May 6, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 28 min |
| May 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 40 min |
| May 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 39 min |
| May 6, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth | 49 min |
| May 6, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller | 46 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 38 min |
| May 6, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 10 min |
| May 6, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Thomas | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 27 min |
| May 6, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 23 min |
| May 6, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 27 min |
| May 6, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 12 min |
| May 6, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 38 min |
| May 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 52 min |
| May 6, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 44 min |
| May 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 30 min |
| May 6, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 43 min |
| May 6, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 22 min |
| May 6, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 43 min |
| May 6, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 34 min |
| May 6, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Union | 28 min |
| May 6, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 51 min |
| May 6, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 37 min |
| May 8, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 34 min |
| May 8, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 23 min |
| May 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 38 min |
| May 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne | 42 min |
| May 13, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman, Randolph | 31 min |
| May 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 53 min |
| May 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 33 min |
| May 14, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 40 min |
| May 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 37 min |
| May 15, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 44 min |
| May 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 30 min |
| May 15, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 62 min |
| May 15, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 20 min |
| May 15, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 56 min |
| May 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 63 min |
| May 15, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 31 min |
| May 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Twiggs | 45 min |
| May 16, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs | 42 min |
| May 17, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 45 min |
| May 17, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Macon | 46 min |
| May 17, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 47 min |
| May 17, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 43 min |
| May 17, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 33 min |
| May 17, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 26 min |
| May 17, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 67 min |
| May 17, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 32 min |
| May 17, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Screven | 54 min |
| May 17, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 49 min |
| May 17, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 41 min |
| May 17, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 40 min |
| May 17, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 51 min |
| May 17, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 24 min |
| May 17, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 48 min |
| May 17, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 44 min |
| May 17, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 41 min |
| May 17, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 44 min |
| May 17, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 39 min |
| May 18, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 23 min |
| May 18, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| May 19, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens | 14 min |
| May 19, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 48 min |
| May 20, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 22 min |
| May 20, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 21, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 24 min |
| May 21, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 11 min |
| May 21, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 44 min |
| May 21, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 28 min |
| May 21, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 42 min |
| May 21, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 39 min |
| May 21, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 40 min |
| May 21, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 44 min |
| May 21, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 50 min |
| May 22, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 33 min |
| May 22, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Evans, Tattnall | 55 min |
| May 22, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Tattnall | 36 min |
| May 22, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham, Screven | 40 min |
| May 22, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 27 min |
| May 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 37 min |
| May 22, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Mitchell | 35 min |
| May 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift, Worth | 47 min |
| May 22, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 38 min |
| May 22, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 24 min |
| May 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Tift | 53 min |
| May 22, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 46 min |
| May 22, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee | 54 min |
| May 22, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes | 21 min |
| May 22, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 51 min |
| May 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 45 min |
| May 22, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 36 min |
| May 22, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen | 33 min |
| May 22, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen | 26 min |
| May 23, 1:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 40 min |
| May 23, 3:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 21 min |
| May 29, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 37 min |
| May 29, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 24 min |
| May 29, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 23 min |
| May 29, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 31 min |
| May 29, 11:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 46 min |
| May 31, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 53 min |
| May 31, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 48 min |
| May 31, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 38 min |
| May 31, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 42 min |
| May 31, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 40 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Cook, Lowndes | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 31, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes | 50 min |
| May 31, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 50 min |
| May 31, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 42 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mitchell County10
- Camden County9
- Bryan County9
- Fulton County8
- Cobb County8
- Colquitt County7
- Decatur County7
- Chatham County7
- Liberty County7
- Baker County6
- Lowndes County6
- Effingham County6
- Randolph County5
- Early County5
- Dougherty County5
- Brooks County5
- Thomas County5
- Douglas County5
- Berrien County5
- Terrell County4
- Calhoun County4
- Clinch County4
- Worth County4
- Grady County4
- Pickens County4
- Cherokee County4
- Long County4
- Wayne County4
- Glynn County4
- McIntosh County4
- Cook County4
- Meriwether County3
- Paulding County3
- Stewart County3
- Webster County3
- Quitman County3
- Charlton County3
- Atkinson County3
- Appling County3
- Pierce County3
70 more counties
- Emanuel County3
- Screven County3
- Bulloch County3
- Evans County3
- Forsyth County3
- Gwinnett County3
- DeKalb County3
- Lanier County3
- Rabun County2
- Polk County2
- Heard County2
- Muscogee County2
- Marion County2
- Clay County2
- Lee County2
- Ware County2
- Seminole County2
- Coffee County2
- Pike County2
- Upson County2
- Bacon County2
- Jones County2
- Twiggs County2
- Houston County2
- Dawson County2
- Dade County2
- Toombs County2
- Tattnall County2
- Tift County2
- Treutlen County2
- Floyd County2
- Bartow County2
- Habersham County1
- Coweta County1
- Harris County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Schley County1
- Echols County1
- Miller County1
- Haralson County1
- Fannin County1
- Union County1
- Troup County1
- Bibb County1
- Bleckley County1
- Pulaski County1
- Dooly County1
- Macon County1
- Lincoln County1
- Wilkes County1
- Elbert County1
- Candler County1
- Hall County1
- Sumter County1
- Carroll County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Clayton County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Brantley County1
- Johnson County1
- Laurens County1
- Montgomery County1
- Catoosa County1
- Walker County1
- Chattooga County1
- Jefferson County1
- Glascock County1
- Warren 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.