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Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2020
128 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 128
- Busiest month
- April63 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- April 13, 202040 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 3, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 15 min |
| Jan 3, 7:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens, Wheeler | 15 min |
| Jan 3, 8:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Telfair | 17 min |
| Jan 11, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 28 min |
| Jan 11, 7:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Hart | 36 min |
| Jan 11, 8:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 13 min |
| Feb 6, 8:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson | 29 min |
| Feb 6, 9:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 9:58 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Walton | 32 min |
| Feb 6, 10:10 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 12:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Putnam | 25 min |
| Feb 6, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 12:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Putnam | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 1:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Feb 6, 1:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 32 min |
| Feb 6, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 32 min |
| Feb 6, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke | 23 min |
| Feb 6, 7:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Clinch, Coffee, Pierce, Ware | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 8:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 39 min |
| Mar 4, 11:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Pierce, Wayne | 24 min |
| Mar 4, 11:33 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 27 min |
| Mar 4, 11:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 12:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 8:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 24 min |
| Apr 12, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Walker | 36 min |
| Apr 12, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Apr 12, 8:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 26 min |
| Apr 12, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 14 min |
| Apr 12, 10:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 36 min |
| Apr 12, 11:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 12 min |
| Apr 12, 11:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 35 min |
| Apr 13, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 28 min |
| Apr 13, 1:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 1:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 14 min |
| Apr 13, 2:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 29 min |
| Apr 13, 2:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 12 min |
| Apr 13, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Jones, Monroe | 30 min |
| Apr 13, 2:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 14 min |
| Apr 13, 3:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Franklin, Habersham, Stephens | 27 min |
| Apr 13, 3:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 3:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 3:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Randolph | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 4:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington, Wilkinson | 27 min |
| Apr 13, 4:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 4:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 4:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie | 37 min |
| Apr 13, 4:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 16 min |
| Apr 13, 4:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee, Worth | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 4:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke, Richmond | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 4:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Apr 13, 5:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell, Worth | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 5:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Burke | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 5:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 5:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 5:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Irwin | 38 min |
| Apr 13, 5:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 6:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 29 min |
| Apr 13, 6:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 23 min |
| Apr 13, 6:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 7:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 35 min |
| Apr 13, 7:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 27 min |
| Apr 13, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 24 min |
| Apr 13, 7:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 8:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans | 14 min |
| Apr 20, 12:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Randolph | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 12:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 11:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Thomas | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 12:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Grady, Thomas | 16 min |
| Apr 23, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 1:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Ware | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | McIntosh | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 3:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rabun | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rabun | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 7:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 2:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook | 16 min |
| May 27, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Wayne | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 9:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 10:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 9 min |
| Sep 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Cook, Lowndes | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 53 min |
| Sep 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 19 min |
| Sep 17, 2:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Effingham | 32 min |
| Oct 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 51 min |
| Oct 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 32 min |
| Oct 10, 5:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 48 min |
| Oct 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| Oct 10, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton | 35 min |
| Oct 10, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 34 min |
| Oct 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 24 min |
| Oct 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 36 min |
| Oct 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 48 min |
| Oct 10, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 45 min |
| Oct 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Spalding | 26 min |
| Oct 10, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 35 min |
| Oct 10, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 25 min |
| Oct 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Monroe | 36 min |
| Oct 10, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 47 min |
| Oct 10, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 22 min |
| Oct 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 24 min |
| Oct 10, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 27 min |
| Nov 30, 3:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 3:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 42 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brantley County8
- Clinch County7
- Pierce County7
- Wayne County7
- Ware County6
- Colquitt County6
- Henry County6
- Randolph County5
- Berrien County5
- Lanier County5
- Upson County5
- Clayton County5
- Washington County5
- Thomas County5
- Brooks County5
- Cook County5
- Glynn County5
- Harris County4
- Wilkes County4
- Putnam County4
- Atkinson County4
- Clay County4
- Lowndes County4
- Monroe County4
- Fulton County4
- DeKalb County4
- Charlton County4
- Muscogee County3
- Gwinnett County3
- Jackson County3
- Greene County3
- Burke County3
- Bacon County3
- Coffee County3
- Appling County3
- Quitman County3
- Chattooga County3
- Floyd County3
- Walker County3
- Whitfield County3
84 more counties
- Talbot County3
- Lamar County3
- Hancock County3
- Worth County3
- Mitchell County3
- Bryan County3
- Grady County3
- Camden County3
- Rabun County3
- Carroll County3
- Spalding County3
- Jefferson County2
- Telfair County2
- Hart County2
- Barrow County2
- Hall County2
- Oglethorpe County2
- Walton County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Lincoln County2
- Columbia County2
- Richmond County2
- McIntosh County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Marion County2
- Stewart County2
- Echols County2
- Murray County2
- Cherokee County2
- Butts County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Habersham County2
- Stephens County2
- Johnson County2
- Glascock County2
- Warren County2
- Wilcox County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- Decatur County2
- Pike County2
- Coweta County2
- Laurens County1
- Wheeler County1
- Clarke County1
- Madison County1
- Oconee County1
- Elbert County1
- Morgan County1
- Terrell County1
- Sumter County1
- Webster County1
- Dade County1
- Catoosa County1
- Bartow County1
- Dawson County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Pickens County1
- Franklin County1
- Baldwin County1
- Wilkinson County1
- McDuffie County1
- Lee County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Tift County1
- Irwin County1
- Screven County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Chatham County1
- Bulloch County1
- Evans County1
- Calhoun County1
- Early County1
- Miller County1
- Effingham County1
- Meriwether County1
- Heard County1
- Taylor County1
- Douglas County1
- Fayette County1
- Polk 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.