Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Georgia, December 2002
5 tornado watches in December 2002. 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 24, 20022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 4:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattahoochee, Coweta, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscogee and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 8:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Crisp, Decatur and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 31, 8:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Quitman County3
- Baker County3
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Decatur County3
- Dougherty County3
- Early County3
- Miller County3
- Seminole County3
- Stewart County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Berrien County2
- Brooks County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Crisp County2
- Grady County2
- Irwin County2
- Lee County2
- Mitchell County2
- Randolph County2
- Telfair County2
- Terrell County2
- Thomas County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Wheeler County2
- Worth County2
- Chattahoochee County1
- Coweta County1
- Harris County1
- Heard County1
- Meriwether County1
- Muscogee County1
- Pike County1
- Spalding County1
- Talbot County1
- Troup County1
- Sumter County1
- Webster County1
31 more counties
- Wilcox County1
- Appling County1
- Atkinson County1
- Bacon County1
- Brantley County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Camden County1
- Candler County1
- Charlton County1
- Chatham County1
- Clinch County1
- Coffee County1
- Echols County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Glynn County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Lanier County1
- Laurens County1
- Liberty County1
- Long County1
- Lowndes County1
- McIntosh County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pierce County1
- Tattnall County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Ware County1
- Wayne 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.