Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, August 2008
4 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2008. 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 2, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 52 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bulloch, Burke, Columbia, Effingham, Jenkins, Lincoln and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Bartow County2
- Carroll County2
- Catoosa County2
- Chattooga County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clarke County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- Dade County2
- Dawson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Elbert County2
- Fannin County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Forsyth County2
- Franklin County2
- Fulton County2
- Gilmer County2
- Gordon County2
- Greene County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Habersham County2
- Hall County2
- Haralson County2
- Hart County2
- Heard County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Lumpkin County2
- Madison County2
- Morgan County2
- Murray County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Oglethorpe County2
27 more counties
- Paulding County2
- Pickens County2
- Polk County2
- Rabun County2
- Rockdale County2
- Stephens County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Towns County2
- Union County2
- Walker County2
- Walton County2
- White County2
- Whitfield County2
- Wilkes County2
- Burke County2
- Columbia County2
- Lincoln County2
- McDuffie County2
- Richmond County2
- Butts County1
- Jasper County1
- Putnam County1
- Spalding County1
- Bulloch County1
- Effingham County1
- Jenkins County1
- Screven 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.