Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Georgia, January 1997
7 tornado watches in January 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- January 9, 19972 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Echols, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 16, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill and 76 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 23 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County5
- Grady County5
- Seminole County5
- Thomas County5
- Baker County4
- Early County4
- Colquitt County3
- Miller County3
- Mitchell County3
- Brooks County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Dougherty County3
- Randolph County3
- Terrell County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Lowndes County2
- Cook County2
- Bartow County2
- Berrien County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- Dawson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Fayette County2
- Forsyth County2
- Fulton County2
- Gordon County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Harris County2
- Lee County2
- Meriwether County2
- Muscogee County2
70 more counties
- Paulding County2
- Pickens County2
- Quitman County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumter County2
- Troup County2
- Webster County2
- Echols County1
- Baldwin County1
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Ben Hill County1
- Bibb County1
- Bleckley County1
- Butts County1
- Clarke County1
- Crawford County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Hart County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Irwin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jones County1
- Lamar County1
- Macon County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Newton County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Peach County1
- Pike County1
- Pulaski County1
- Putnam County1
- Rockdale County1
- Schley County1
- Spalding County1
- Talbot County1
- Taylor County1
- Twiggs County1
- Upson County1
- Walton County1
- Wilcox County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Carroll County1
- Chattooga County1
- Dade County1
- Floyd County1
- Gilmer County1
- Habersham County1
- Haralson County1
- Heard County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Murray County1
- Polk County1
- Union County1
- Walker County1
- White County1
- Whitfield County1
- Atkinson County1
- Lanier 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.