Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2016
13 severe thunderstorm watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- March3 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20162 severe thunderstorm watches
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By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Chattahoochee, Columbia and 30 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 24, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 32 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke | 8 hr |
| May 3, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 67 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 4:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan and 92 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts and 61 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 6 hr |
| Nov 30, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Columbia, Crisp, Dooly and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crisp County6
- Dooly County6
- Wilcox County6
- Bibb County5
- Bleckley County5
- Glascock County5
- Houston County5
- Macon County5
- Peach County5
- Pulaski County5
- Schley County5
- Sumter County5
- Taylor County5
- Twiggs County5
- Washington County5
- Wilkinson County5
- Greene County4
- Muscogee County4
- Oglethorpe County4
- Putnam County4
- Taliaferro County4
- Wilkes County4
- Baldwin County4
- Burke County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Columbia County4
- Crawford County4
- Dodge County4
- Emanuel County4
- Hancock County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Jones County4
- Laurens County4
- Lincoln County4
- McDuffie County4
- Marion County4
- Stewart County4
- Treutlen County4
- Warren County4
107 more counties
- Webster County4
- Decatur County4
- Miller County4
- Seminole County4
- Elbert County4
- Butts County3
- Clarke County3
- Harris County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Jasper County3
- Lamar County3
- Madison County3
- Meriwether County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Newton County3
- Oconee County3
- Pike County3
- Spalding County3
- Talbot County3
- Upson County3
- Richmond County3
- Baker County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Berrien County3
- Brooks County3
- Clay County3
- Colquitt County3
- Cook County3
- Dougherty County3
- Early County3
- Grady County3
- Irwin County3
- Lanier County3
- Lee County3
- Lowndes County3
- Mitchell County3
- Thomas County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Bryan County3
- Bulloch County3
- Candler County3
- Chatham County3
- Effingham County3
- Evans County3
- Jenkins County3
- Liberty County3
- Long County3
- McIntosh County3
- Montgomery County3
- Screven County3
- Tattnall County3
- Telfair County3
- Toombs County3
- Wheeler County3
- Franklin County3
- Hart County3
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Bartow County2
- Carroll County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Forsyth County2
- Fulton County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Haralson County2
- Heard County2
- Paulding County2
- Polk County2
- Rockdale County2
- Troup County2
- Walton County2
- Calhoun County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Appling County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Clinch County2
- Coffee County2
- Echols County2
- Glynn County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Pierce County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Stephens County2
- Habersham County1
- Rabun County1
- Catoosa County1
- Dade County1
- Walker County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.