Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 1999
4 tornado watches in May 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 6, 19992 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 6, 1:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 6:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 55 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 48 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bartow County3
- Carroll County3
- Chattooga County3
- Cherokee County3
- Cobb County3
- Dawson County3
- Douglas County3
- Floyd County3
- Forsyth County3
- Fulton County3
- Gordon County3
- Haralson County3
- Heard County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Paulding County3
- Pickens County3
- Polk County3
- Fannin County2
- Gilmer County2
- Murray County2
- Rabun County2
- Towns County2
- Union County2
- White County2
- Whitfield County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Butts County2
- Clarke County2
- Clay County2
- Clayton County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Harris County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
46 more counties
- Lamar County2
- Madison County2
- Meriwether County2
- Muscogee County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Pike County2
- Rockdale County2
- Spalding County2
- Stephens County2
- Talbot County2
- Troup County2
- Upson County2
- Walton County2
- Catoosa County1
- Dade County1
- Walker County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Crawford County1
- Elbert County1
- Greene County1
- Hart County1
- Jasper County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Putnam County1
- Quitman County1
- Stewart County1
- Taylor County1
- Webster County1
- Baker County1
- Calhoun County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Grady County1
- Miller County1
- Mitchell County1
- Randolph County1
- Seminole County1
- Terrell County1
- Turner County1
- Worth County1
- Habersham 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.