Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, May 1997
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19973 severe thunderstorm watches
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 3, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 72 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 46 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Candler, Chattahoochee and 50 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 38 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 64 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Quitman | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wheeler County5
- Bibb County4
- Bleckley County4
- Candler County4
- Crisp County4
- Dodge County4
- Dooly County4
- Lamar County4
- Lee County4
- Meriwether County4
- Monroe County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pike County4
- Pulaski County4
- Quitman County4
- Spalding County4
- Telfair County4
- Troup County4
- Upson County4
- Wilcox County4
- Baldwin County3
- Bryan County3
- Bulloch County3
- Butts County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Clay County3
- Coweta County3
- Crawford County3
- Effingham County3
- Emanuel County3
- Evans County3
- Harris County3
- Heard County3
- Houston County3
- Jasper County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Laurens County3
- Macon County3
- Marion County3
105 more counties
- Muscogee County3
- Peach County3
- Putnam County3
- Randolph County3
- Schley County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumter County3
- Talbot County3
- Tattnall County3
- Taylor County3
- Terrell County3
- Toombs County3
- Treutlen County3
- Turner County3
- Twiggs County3
- Webster County3
- Appling County3
- Atkinson County3
- Bacon County3
- Baker County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Berrien County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chatham County3
- Coffee County3
- Dougherty County3
- Irwin County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Pierce County3
- Tift County3
- Wayne County3
- Worth County3
- Clayton County2
- Columbia County2
- Fayette County2
- Glascock County2
- Greene County2
- Hancock County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jenkins County2
- McDuffie County2
- Morgan County2
- Newton County2
- Richmond County2
- Rockdale County2
- Screven County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Brantley County2
- Brooks County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Clinch County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Echols County2
- Glynn County2
- Lanier County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- Lowndes County2
- McIntosh County2
- Mitchell County2
- Thomas County2
- Ware County2
- Carroll County2
- Haralson County2
- Burke County1
- Lincoln County1
- Wilkes County1
- Decatur County1
- Grady County1
- Miller County1
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Chattooga County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Cobb County1
- Dawson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Gordon County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Hall County1
- Hart County1
- Jackson County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Madison County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Paulding County1
- Pickens County1
- Polk County1
- Stephens County1
- Walton County1
- Early 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.