Alert archive / Georgia

Weather alerts in Toombs County, Georgia

2,901 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Toombs County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,901
Warnings
721
Watches
526
Advisories
504
Busiest year
2008172 alerts
Average year
76over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 71% of tornado reports in Toombs County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 27 minutes before, and 82% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%4100%32 min
200910100%0
201210100%0
201510100%0
201720100%10%
201910100%0
2022010%
202310100%0
20242150%1100%7 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087271%250%37 min
200913192%1100%19 min
20107357%3100%14 min
2011141121%5100%18 min
20127614%771%9 min
20138713%3100%5 min
20149544%863%14 min
2015440%367%30 min
20167614%3100%18 min
201714843%729%19 min
20189544%10%
20196267%0
20209722%1471%9 min
202110100%0
202213469%250%18 min
202312467%2100%9 min
20248538%580%20 min
202514193%2100%3 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201210100%0
201310100%10%
201710100%0
2018110%8100%173 min
201910100%0
2020330%1100%25 min
202310100%0
20244325%1233%86 min
202530100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 21, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC50 min
Aug 21, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC45 min
Jul 20, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC44 min
Jul 17, 8:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFC110 min
Jul 17, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC55 min
Jun 2, 2:53 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCHS70 hr
May 29, 6:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningFFC3 hr
Apr 8, 1:43 AM EDTRed Flag WarningFFC18 hr
Mar 27, 1:54 PM EDTRed Flag WarningFFC30 hr
Mar 17, 2:05 AM EDTFreeze WarningFFC32 hr
Mar 15, 2:46 PM EDTFreeze WarningFFC43 hr
Mar 12, 8:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC36 min

Nearby

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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.