Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Georgia, March 1997
7 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- March 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattooga, Dade | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 57 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Butts, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Clayton and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 39 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dade County5
- Chattooga County4
- Catoosa County4
- Clayton County4
- Murray County4
- Walker County4
- Whitfield County4
- Banks County3
- Barrow County3
- Bartow County3
- Carroll County3
- Cherokee County3
- Cobb County3
- Coweta County3
- Dawson County3
- DeKalb County3
- Douglas County3
- Fannin County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Forsyth County3
- Franklin County3
- Fulton County3
- Gilmer County3
- Gordon County3
- Gwinnett County3
- Habersham County3
- Hall County3
- Haralson County3
- Heard County3
- Jackson County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Newton County3
- Paulding County3
- Pickens County3
- Polk County3
- Rabun County3
- Rockdale County3
- Stephens County3
- Towns County3
47 more counties
- Union County3
- Walton County3
- White County3
- Butts County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Harris County2
- Henry County2
- Lamar County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Muscogee County2
- Oconee County2
- Pike County2
- Spalding County2
- Talbot County2
- Taylor County2
- Troup County2
- Upson County2
- Madison County2
- Bibb County1
- Jasper County1
- Peach County1
- Hart County1
- Baker County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Clay County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Grady County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Miller County1
- Mitchell County1
- Quitman County1
- Randolph County1
- Schley County1
- Seminole County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Terrell County1
- Webster County1
- Greene 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.