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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2001
22 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 22
- Busiest month
- March8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 15, 20013 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 19, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 66 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 69 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 66 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 37 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 55 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Quitman | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 10:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Muscogee | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 11:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Seminole | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early, Grady and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early, Grady and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 14, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Charlton | 6 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Seminole | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley and 72 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County13
- Seminole County13
- Baker County12
- Calhoun County12
- Grady County12
- Miller County12
- Clay County11
- Early County11
- Mitchell County11
- Thomas County11
- Colquitt County10
- Cook County10
- Berrien County9
- Brooks County9
- Dougherty County9
- Randolph County9
- Tift County9
- Atkinson County8
- Irwin County8
- Lanier County8
- Lowndes County8
- Quitman County8
- Terrell County8
- Worth County8
- Ben Hill County7
- Coffee County7
- Crisp County7
- Echols County7
- Lee County7
- Stewart County7
- Clinch County6
- Jeff Davis County6
- Muscogee County6
- Sumter County6
- Telfair County6
- Turner County6
- Wilcox County6
- Dodge County5
- Dooly County5
- Macon County5
119 more counties
- Peach County5
- Pulaski County5
- Schley County5
- Webster County5
- Wheeler County5
- Toombs County5
- Bacon County5
- Brantley County5
- Bryan County5
- Pierce County5
- Ware County5
- Wayne County5
- Charlton County5
- Baldwin County4
- Bibb County4
- Bleckley County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Crawford County4
- Houston County4
- Jones County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Taylor County4
- Treutlen County4
- Montgomery County4
- Appling County4
- Evans County4
- Glynn County4
- Liberty County4
- Long County4
- McIntosh County4
- Tattnall County4
- Chatham County4
- Butts County3
- Hancock County3
- Harris County3
- Heard County3
- Lamar County3
- Laurens County3
- Meriwether County3
- Pike County3
- Spalding County3
- Talbot County3
- Troup County3
- Twiggs County3
- Upson County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Candler County3
- Clarke County3
- Elbert County3
- Emanuel County3
- Greene County3
- Jasper County3
- Madison County3
- Morgan County3
- Oconee County3
- Oglethorpe County3
- Putnam County3
- Taliaferro County3
- Wilkes County3
- Cobb County3
- Dawson County3
- Douglas County3
- Camden County3
- Effingham County3
- Johnson County2
- Washington County2
- Burke County2
- Jenkins County2
- Lincoln County2
- Warren County2
- Catoosa County2
- Chattooga County2
- Dade County2
- Floyd County2
- Gordon County2
- Murray County2
- Walker County2
- Whitfield County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Bartow County2
- Carroll County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clayton County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fannin County2
- Fayette County2
- Forsyth County2
- Franklin County2
- Fulton County2
- Gilmer County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Haralson County2
- Hart County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Newton County2
- Paulding County2
- Pickens County2
- Polk County2
- Rockdale County2
- Union County2
- Walton County2
- Bulloch County2
- Screven County2
- Columbia County1
- Glascock County1
- Jefferson County1
- McDuffie County1
- Richmond County1
- Habersham County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Rabun County1
- Stephens County1
- Towns County1
- White County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.