Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Georgia, September 2002
5 tornado watches in September 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 September 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- September 26, 20024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early | 8 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early | 8 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 12:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clay and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Quitman | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County4
- Early County3
- Lee County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Quitman County2
- Baker County1
- Calhoun County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
- Grady County1
- Miller County1
- Mitchell County1
- Seminole County1
- Thomas County1
- Worth County1
- Baldwin County1
- Bibb County1
- Bleckley County1
- Butts County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Columbia County1
- Crawford County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Emanuel County1
- Glascock County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Lamar County1
- Laurens County1
- McDuffie County1
- Macon County1
27 more counties
- Marion County1
- Meriwether County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Muscogee County1
- Peach County1
- Pike County1
- Pulaski County1
- Putnam County1
- Schley County1
- Spalding County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Talbot County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Taylor County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Troup County1
- Twiggs County1
- Upson County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilcox County1
- Wilkinson 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.