Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, May 2008
54 tornado warnings in May 2008. 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 54
- Busiest day
- May 11, 200842 tornado warnings
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 10, 9:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 31 min |
| May 11, 3:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 42 min |
| May 11, 4:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 46 min |
| May 11, 4:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Henry | 53 min |
| May 11, 5:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 33 min |
| May 11, 5:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 38 min |
| May 11, 5:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Monroe | 38 min |
| May 11, 5:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 36 min |
| May 11, 6:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| May 11, 6:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 43 min |
| May 11, 6:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 38 min |
| May 11, 6:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 48 min |
| May 11, 7:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke | 30 min |
| May 11, 7:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 29 min |
| May 11, 7:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Sumter | 57 min |
| May 11, 7:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee | 50 min |
| May 11, 7:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 66 min |
| May 11, 7:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 49 min |
| May 11, 7:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 36 min |
| May 11, 7:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 48 min |
| May 11, 7:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 16 min |
| May 11, 8:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis, Wayne | 38 min |
| May 11, 8:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 27 min |
| May 11, 8:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 29 min |
| May 11, 9:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 41 min |
| May 11, 9:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 37 min |
| May 11, 9:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 26 min |
| May 11, 9:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 24 min |
| May 11, 9:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 23 min |
| May 11, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 29 min |
| May 11, 10:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce | 23 min |
| May 11, 10:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Wayne | 30 min |
| May 11, 11:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 35 min |
| May 11, 2:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn, Wayne | 31 min |
| May 11, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Jeff Davis | 26 min |
| May 11, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 26 min |
| May 11, 3:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 23 min |
| May 11, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 30 min |
| May 11, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 31 min |
| May 20, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 15 min |
| May 20, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke | 44 min |
| May 20, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton | 27 min |
| May 20, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 46 min |
| May 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| May 20, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 20, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock | 26 min |
| May 20, 9:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 26 min |
| May 21, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 20 min |
| May 21, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 20 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County5
- Glynn County5
- Fulton County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- McIntosh County4
- DeKalb County3
- Washington County3
- Screven County3
- Bulloch County3
- Liberty County3
- Long County3
- Camden County3
- Wilcox County2
- Troup County2
- Bibb County2
- Twiggs County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Laurens County2
- Burke County2
- Candler County2
- Evans County2
- Tattnall County2
- Crisp County2
- Bacon County2
- Coffee County2
- Appling County2
- Bryan County2
- Brantley County2
- Cherokee County2
- Cobb County2
- Dodge County1
- Telfair County1
- Meriwether County1
- Carroll County1
- Douglas County1
- Clayton County1
- Henry County1
- Lamar County1
- Pike County1
- Upson County1
27 more counties
- Newton County1
- Rockdale County1
- Crawford County1
- Monroe County1
- Johnson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Emanuel County1
- Montgomery County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Wheeler County1
- Jenkins County1
- Sumter County1
- Lee County1
- Effingham County1
- Chatham County1
- Ben Hill County1
- Irwin County1
- Pierce County1
- Charlton County1
- Bartow County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Haralson County1
- Polk County1
- Hancock County1
- Glascock County1
- Lowndes 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. Rebuilt daily.