Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2016
58 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 58
- Busiest month
- February19 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- February 24, 201613 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Miller | 8 min |
| Feb 3, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 25 min |
| Feb 3, 5:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 50 min |
| Feb 3, 5:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 33 min |
| Feb 3, 5:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 32 min |
| Feb 3, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 12:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 12:52 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 1:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 1:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 1:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 2:03 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Worth | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 2:09 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 20 min |
| Feb 24, 2:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Dougherty, Lee, Turner, Worth | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 2:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 3:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Turner | 19 min |
| Feb 24, 3:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 4:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee, Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 8:09 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Stephens | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 51 min |
| Apr 1, 2:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 6:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach, Taylor | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 7:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 7:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 8:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Apr 1, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 15 min |
| Apr 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Ware | 20 min |
| Apr 7, 1:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Webster | 27 min |
| Apr 7, 2:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Randolph, Terrell | 26 min |
| Apr 7, 2:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty | 20 min |
| May 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 27 min |
| May 19, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 13 min |
| Jun 5, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 13 min |
| Jun 6, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Charlton | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 1:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 12 min |
| Sep 2, 12:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 3:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 37 min |
| Sep 2, 3:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 3:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 37 min |
| Sep 2, 4:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty | 30 min |
| Oct 7, 10:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 24 min |
| Oct 7, 1:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 37 min |
| Oct 7, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham, Effingham | 16 min |
| Nov 30, 1:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 1:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 18 min |
| Nov 30, 12:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 25 min |
| Nov 30, 1:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 34 min |
| Nov 30, 2:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 18 min |
| Nov 30, 2:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 14 min |
| Nov 30, 2:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson | 32 min |
| Dec 5, 6:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Seminole | 11 min |
| Dec 5, 7:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 31 min |
| Dec 13, 2:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Wheeler | 37 min |
| Dec 29, 8:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion, Talbot | 19 min |
| Dec 29, 9:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Taylor | 24 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bryan County7
- Camden County7
- Calhoun County6
- Liberty County6
- Dougherty County6
- Baker County5
- Chatham County5
- Mitchell County5
- Grady County5
- Worth County4
- Miller County3
- Coffee County3
- Effingham County3
- Early County3
- Lee County3
- Decatur County3
- Marion County3
- Taylor County3
- Twiggs County3
- Bacon County2
- Long County2
- Clay County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Seminole County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Turner County2
- Dodge County2
- Crawford County2
- Talbot County2
- Peach County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Laurens County2
- Emanuel County2
- McIntosh County2
- Forsyth County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Tattnall County1
- Bulloch County1
32 more counties
- Evans County1
- Wilcox County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Stephens County1
- Upson County1
- Houston County1
- Bleckley County1
- Treutlen County1
- Atkinson County1
- Clinch County1
- Ware County1
- Stewart County1
- Webster County1
- Charlton County1
- Glynn County1
- Dade County1
- Walker County1
- Catoosa County1
- Carroll County1
- Haralson County1
- Paulding County1
- Cobb County1
- DeKalb County1
- Fulton County1
- Meriwether County1
- Barrow County1
- Clarke County1
- Jackson County1
- Colquitt County1
- Thomas County1
- Wheeler County1
- Macon 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.