Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, May 2002
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20024 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 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, Towns and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 6:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 49 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 73 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Burke, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 10, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 52 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 13, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 48 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Candler and 45 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dade | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Elbert County5
- Greene County5
- Morgan County5
- Oglethorpe County5
- Taliaferro County5
- Wilkes County5
- Gilmer County4
- Habersham County4
- Murray County4
- Union County4
- White County4
- Whitfield County4
- Barrow County4
- Bartow County4
- Carroll County4
- Cherokee County4
- Clarke County4
- Clayton County4
- Cobb County4
- DeKalb County4
- Douglas County4
- Forsyth County4
- Fulton County4
- Gwinnett County4
- Haralson County4
- Henry County4
- Jackson County4
- Jasper County4
- Madison County4
- Newton County4
- Oconee County4
- Paulding County4
- Polk County4
- Rockdale County4
- Walton County4
- Warren County4
- Columbia County4
- Lincoln County4
- McDuffie County4
- Richmond County4
71 more counties
- Johnson County4
- Fannin County3
- Rabun County3
- Towns County3
- Banks County3
- Chattooga County3
- Coweta County3
- Dawson County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Gordon County3
- Hall County3
- Hart County3
- Heard County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Pickens County3
- Stephens County3
- Walker County3
- Baldwin County3
- Bibb County3
- Butts County3
- Crawford County3
- Glascock County3
- Hancock County3
- Houston County3
- Jones County3
- Lamar County3
- Monroe County3
- Peach County3
- Putnam County3
- Talbot County3
- Taylor County3
- Twiggs County3
- Upson County3
- Washington County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Bleckley County3
- Burke County3
- Jefferson County3
- Jenkins County3
- Catoosa County2
- Harris County2
- Meriwether County2
- Muscogee County2
- Pike County2
- Spalding County2
- Troup County2
- Emanuel County2
- Screven County2
- Dade County2
- Candler County2
- Montgomery County2
- Chattahoochee County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Laurens County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Pulaski County1
- Schley County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Treutlen County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Bulloch County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Tattnall County1
- Toombs 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.