Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2025
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, May 2025
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20252 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, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 40 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 49 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 4:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 4 hr |
| May 18, 8:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 51 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 81 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carroll County6
- Butts County5
- Clayton County5
- Coweta County5
- DeKalb County5
- Douglas County5
- Fayette County5
- Forsyth County5
- Fulton County5
- Haralson County5
- Heard County5
- Henry County5
- Lamar County5
- Meriwether County5
- Pike County5
- Spalding County5
- Troup County5
- Banks County4
- Bartow County4
- Cherokee County4
- Cobb County4
- Dawson County4
- Gwinnett County4
- Hall County4
- Lumpkin County4
- Newton County4
- Paulding County4
- Pickens County4
- Rockdale County4
- Walton County4
- Baldwin County4
- Bibb County4
- Crawford County4
- Harris County4
- Jasper County4
- Jones County4
- Monroe County4
- Muscogee County4
- Putnam County4
- Talbot County4
87 more counties
- Taylor County4
- Upson County4
- Barrow County3
- Catoosa County3
- Chattooga County3
- Dade County3
- Fannin County3
- Floyd County3
- Gilmer County3
- Gordon County3
- Jackson County3
- Murray County3
- Polk County3
- Union County3
- Walker County3
- Whitfield County3
- Hancock County3
- Morgan County3
- Habersham County3
- Stephens County3
- Bleckley County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Crisp County3
- Dodge County3
- Dooly County3
- Houston County3
- Johnson County3
- Laurens County3
- Macon County3
- Marion County3
- Peach County3
- Pulaski County3
- Schley County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumter County3
- Twiggs County3
- Webster County3
- Wilcox County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Towns County2
- White County2
- Clarke County2
- Greene County2
- Madison County2
- Oconee County2
- Oglethorpe County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Warren County2
- Wilkes County2
- Elbert County2
- Franklin County2
- Hart County2
- Rabun County2
- Emanuel County2
- Montgomery County2
- Telfair County2
- Toombs County2
- Treutlen County2
- Wheeler County2
- Washington County2
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Lee County1
- Quitman County1
- Randolph County1
- Terrell County1
- Burke County1
- Columbia County1
- Glascock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Richmond County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Candler County1
- Chatham County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Jenkins County1
- Liberty County1
- Long County1
- McIntosh County1
- Screven County1
- Tattnall 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.