Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 1997
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 44 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chattooga County3
- Floyd County3
- Walker County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Bartow County2
- Butts County2
- Carroll County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clarke County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- Dawson County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Fayette County2
- Forsyth County2
- Fulton County2
- Gilmer County2
- Gordon County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Habersham County2
- Hall County2
- Haralson County2
- Harris County2
- Heard County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Lumpkin County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Paulding County2
- Pickens County2
41 more counties
- Pike County2
- Polk County2
- Putnam County2
- Rabun County2
- Rockdale County2
- Spalding County2
- Troup County2
- Union County2
- Upson County2
- Walton County2
- White County2
- Catoosa County1
- Dade County1
- Whitfield County1
- Baldwin County1
- Fannin County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Madison County1
- Murray County1
- Stephens County1
- Talbot County1
- Towns County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Burke County1
- Candler County1
- Chatham County1
- Columbia County1
- Effingham County1
- Glascock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jenkins County1
- Liberty County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Richmond County1
- Screven County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Warren County1
- Wilkes County1
Nearby
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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.