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Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1997

45 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
45
Busiest month
October21 tornado warnings
Busiest day
October 26, 199715 tornado warnings

Over time

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 6:52 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXGlynn23 min
Mar 13, 4:54 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee46 min
Mar 13, 5:01 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXStewart34 min
Mar 13, 5:17 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCHarris, Talbot28 min
Mar 13, 5:23 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee32 min
Mar 13, 5:42 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot48 min
Mar 29, 12:22 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCBartow38 min
Apr 22, 6:33 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCJackson, Madison27 min
Apr 22, 6:50 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPElbert40 min
Apr 22, 7:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPElbert44 min
Apr 22, 10:48 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMacon27 min
Apr 28, 5:03 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXClinch, Ware42 min
Apr 28, 5:47 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXWare28 min
May 2, 7:14 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCDade, Walker46 min
May 2, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCDade, Walker43 min
May 3, 2:33 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCPolk42 min
May 3, 2:42 AM EDTTornado WarningFFCBartow, Floyd33 min
May 27, 12:56 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCUpson49 min
Oct 24, 12:57 PM EDTTornado WarningBMXQuitman18 min
Oct 24, 2:36 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCrisp39 min
Oct 25, 4:51 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether24 min
Oct 25, 5:21 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCPike24 min
Oct 25, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXAtkinson, Coffee59 min
Oct 26, 5:47 AM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee48 min
Oct 26, 6:56 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCHarris94 min
Oct 26, 8:53 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCUpson22 min
Oct 26, 9:21 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCLamar24 min
Oct 26, 11:56 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEEarly34 min
Oct 26, 12:09 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCDooly, Sumter36 min
Oct 26, 12:17 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEDecatur, Miller43 min
Oct 26, 12:27 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEBaker, Calhoun48 min
Oct 26, 12:40 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEDougherty50 min
Oct 26, 12:53 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCHouston22 min
Oct 26, 1:12 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCBleckley, Pulaski33 min
Oct 26, 1:47 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEColquitt43 min
Oct 26, 1:50 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCLaurens10 min
Oct 26, 3:41 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEThomas34 min
Oct 26, 4:09 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBacon66 min
Oct 26, 8:26 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXEchols49 min
Nov 1, 3:55 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXMuscogee50 min
Nov 1, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee32 min
Nov 1, 11:51 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXCharlton64 min
Nov 21, 8:16 PM ESTTornado WarningBMXChattahoochee, Stewart34 min
Nov 21, 8:52 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCMarion33 min
Nov 21, 9:01 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCSchley29 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

4 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 26, 199715tornado warnings
  2. March 13, 19975tornado warnings
  3. April 22, 19973tornado warnings
  4. October 25, 19973tornado warnings
  5. November 22, 19973tornado warnings
  6. April 28, 19972tornado warnings
  7. May 2, 19972tornado warnings
  8. May 3, 19972tornado warnings
  9. October 24, 19972tornado warnings
  10. November 1, 19972tornado warnings
  11. February 13, 19971tornado warnings
  12. March 29, 19971tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.