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Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2002
90 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 90
- Busiest month
- November46 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- December 24, 200227 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 15 min |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Lee, Quitman, Randolph and 2 more | 18 days |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner | 18 days |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes | 18 days |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 186 days |
| Apr 28, 9:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Franklin | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 9:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Hart | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 25 min |
| May 1, 4:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 34 min |
| May 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richmond | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 4:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller, Seminole | 29 days |
| Oct 21, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Wayne | 15 days |
| Oct 21, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 15 days |
| Oct 29, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 13 days |
| Nov 5, 2:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 7 days |
| Nov 5, 6:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 49 days |
| Nov 5, 6:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Randolph | 49 days |
| Nov 5, 8:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 48 days |
| Nov 5, 8:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 48 days |
| Nov 5, 9:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell | 48 days |
| Nov 5, 10:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Pierce, Wayne | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long | 46 min |
| Nov 6, 4:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 5:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 11:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker | 39 min |
| Nov 11, 12:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 43 min |
| Nov 11, 12:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 85 min |
| Nov 11, 1:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 48 min |
| Nov 11, 1:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 46 min |
| Nov 11, 1:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 47 min |
| Nov 11, 2:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 64 min |
| Nov 11, 2:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 52 min |
| Nov 11, 2:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 53 min |
| Nov 11, 2:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 96 min |
| Nov 11, 4:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 4:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 63 min |
| Nov 11, 4:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Nov 11, 4:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Newton | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 4:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene | 41 min |
| Nov 11, 5:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 59 min |
| Nov 11, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 55 min |
| Nov 11, 5:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton | 3 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 43 days |
| Nov 11, 5:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Nov 11, 6:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Nov 11, 6:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 43 days |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Nov 11, 5:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller, Mitchell | 43 days |
| Nov 12, 3:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller, Seminole | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 6:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 6:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 7:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 7:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 8:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 42 days |
| Dec 24, 7:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 7 days |
| Dec 24, 8:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell | 23 min |
| Dec 24, 8:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee | 36 min |
| Dec 24, 9:02 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Worth | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 52 min |
| Dec 24, 9:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift, Turner | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 9:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 10:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 29 min |
| Dec 24, 10:03 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 27 min |
| Dec 24, 10:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 97 min |
| Dec 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 30 min |
| Dec 24, 10:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 28 min |
| Dec 24, 10:19 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lanier | 26 min |
| Dec 24, 10:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 67 min |
| Dec 24, 10:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch | 32 min |
| Dec 24, 10:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 67 min |
| Dec 24, 10:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Ware | 90 min |
| Dec 24, 10:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 100 min |
| Dec 24, 11:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 89 min |
| Dec 24, 11:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 118 min |
| Dec 24, 11:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 2 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 12:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 118 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County7
- Grady County6
- Mitchell County6
- Randolph County5
- Miller County5
- Seminole County4
- Coffee County4
- Appling County4
- Pierce County4
- Thomas County3
- Colquitt County3
- Clay County3
- Dougherty County3
- Berrien County3
- Newton County3
- Bartow County3
- Wayne County3
- Bacon County3
- Ware County3
- Clinch County3
- Brooks County2
- Cook County2
- Calhoun County2
- Lee County2
- Terrell County2
- Worth County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Irwin County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Lanier County2
- Lowndes County2
- Baker County2
- Early County2
- Cherokee County2
- Brantley County2
- Charlton County2
- McIntosh County2
- Floyd County2
- Jasper County2
30 more counties
- Morgan County2
- Lincoln County2
- Jefferson County2
- Atkinson County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Camden County2
- Quitman County1
- Franklin County1
- Hart County1
- Gwinnett County1
- DeKalb County1
- Walton County1
- Richmond County1
- Long County1
- Echols County1
- Liberty County1
- Dade County1
- Walker County1
- Polk County1
- Paulding County1
- Cobb County1
- Lumpkin County1
- White County1
- Forsyth County1
- Fulton County1
- Butts County1
- Henry County1
- Greene County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Glynn 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. Rebuilt daily.