Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Georgia, April 1997
8 tornado watches in April 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 23, 19974 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 58 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Effingham | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 66 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Seminole County5
- Lee County5
- Mitchell County5
- Calhoun County4
- Clay County4
- Early County4
- Randolph County4
- Crisp County4
- Evans County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- Montgomery County4
- Tattnall County4
- Telfair County4
- Terrell County4
- Toombs County4
- Wheeler County4
- Wilcox County4
- Decatur County4
- Grady County4
- Appling County4
- Atkinson County4
- Bacon County4
- Berrien County4
- Brantley County4
- Brooks County4
- Bryan County4
- Camden County4
- Charlton County4
- Clinch County4
- Coffee County4
- Colquitt County4
- Cook County4
- Echols County4
- Glynn County4
- Lanier County4
- Liberty County4
- Long County4
- Lowndes County4
- McIntosh County4
- Pierce County4
119 more counties
- Thomas County4
- Tift County4
- Ware County4
- Wayne County4
- Quitman County3
- Schley County3
- Stewart County3
- Webster County3
- Bleckley County3
- Bulloch County3
- Candler County3
- Dodge County3
- Dooly County3
- Emanuel County3
- Houston County3
- Laurens County3
- Macon County3
- Pulaski County3
- Sumter County3
- Treutlen County3
- Effingham County3
- Baker County3
- Dougherty County3
- Miller County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Chatham County3
- Irwin County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Chattahoochee County2
- Marion County2
- Muscogee County2
- Talbot County2
- Taylor County2
- Upson County2
- Jenkins County2
- Johnson County2
- Peach County2
- Screven County2
- Twiggs County2
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Butts County1
- Carroll County1
- Catoosa County1
- Chattooga County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Coweta County1
- Dade County1
- Dawson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Fannin County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Fulton County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Habersham County1
- Hall County1
- Haralson County1
- Harris County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Meriwether County1
- Murray County1
- Newton County1
- Paulding County1
- Pickens County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Rabun County1
- Rockdale County1
- Spalding County1
- Towns County1
- Troup County1
- Union County1
- Walker County1
- Walton County1
- White County1
- Whitfield County1
- Baldwin County1
- Bibb County1
- Burke County1
- Clarke County1
- Columbia County1
- Crawford County1
- Elbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Glascock County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Hart County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jones County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Putnam County1
- Richmond County1
- Stephens County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wilkes County1
- Wilkinson 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.