Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings / 2017
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, May 2017
50 tornado warnings in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 50
- Busiest day
- May 23, 201726 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 1, 10:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 40 min |
| May 4, 12:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 26 min |
| May 4, 12:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 24 min |
| May 4, 1:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 28 min |
| May 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 30 min |
| May 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 34 min |
| May 4, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 35 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton, Ware | 28 min |
| May 22, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 34 min |
| May 23, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 28 min |
| May 23, 1:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Sumter | 36 min |
| May 23, 1:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee, Worth | 11 min |
| May 23, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 34 min |
| May 23, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 28 min |
| May 23, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 30 min |
| May 23, 2:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 17 min |
| May 23, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 26 min |
| May 23, 2:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley | 31 min |
| May 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 23 min |
| May 23, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Echols | 26 min |
| May 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis | 30 min |
| May 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Ware | 30 min |
| May 23, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 25 min |
| May 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 35 min |
| May 23, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Ware | 32 min |
| May 23, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 33 min |
| May 23, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 28 min |
| May 23, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Liberty | 33 min |
| May 23, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker | 20 min |
| May 23, 5:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 34 min |
| May 23, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Coffee | 28 min |
| May 23, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Wayne | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 24 min |
| May 23, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Pierce, Ware | 29 min |
| May 23, 7:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 53 min |
| May 23, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 45 min |
| May 23, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 20 min |
| May 23, 8:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 35 min |
| May 23, 9:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 38 min |
| May 24, 9:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 28 min |
| May 24, 10:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 14 min |
| May 24, 10:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray | 27 min |
| May 24, 11:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 23 min |
| May 24, 11:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 23 min |
| May 24, 11:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 31 min |
| May 24, 11:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 17 min |
| May 24, 11:56 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Union | 14 min |
| May 24, 2:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 31 min |
| May 24, 2:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge | 36 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County8
- Bacon County7
- Coffee County6
- Ware County4
- Crisp County4
- Dooly County4
- Appling County4
- Pierce County4
- Wilcox County3
- Liberty County3
- Chatham County3
- Murray County3
- Berrien County2
- Lanier County2
- Brantley County2
- Charlton County2
- Dodge County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Atkinson County2
- Long County2
- Bryan County2
- Gilmer County2
- Chattahoochee County1
- Muscogee County1
- Cook County1
- Lowndes County1
- Glynn County1
- DeKalb County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Camden County1
- Randolph County1
- Sumter County1
- Lee County1
- Worth County1
- Candler County1
- Evans County1
- Tattnall County1
- Telfair County1
- Echols County1
- Baker 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.