Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Georgia, March 2003
11 tornado watches in March 2003. 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 March 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- March 20, 20035 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Haralson, Polk | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Walker and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Paulding, Polk, Troup | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 71 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 50 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 34 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Appling County5
- Bacon County5
- Bryan County5
- Bulloch County5
- Effingham County5
- Evans County5
- Liberty County5
- Long County5
- Tattnall County5
- Wayne County5
- Chatham County4
- Clinch County4
- Echols County4
- McIntosh County4
- Pierce County4
- Ware County4
- Coffee County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- Brantley County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Dougherty County3
- Emanuel County3
- Irwin County3
- Lee County3
- Montgomery County3
- Telfair County3
- Tift County3
- Wheeler County3
- Candler County3
- Jenkins County3
- Screven County3
- Toombs County3
- Atkinson County3
- Berrien County3
- Brooks County3
- Cook County3
- Lanier County3
- Lowndes County3
- Thomas County3
- Haralson County2
90 more counties
- Polk County2
- Charlton County2
- Glynn County2
- Catoosa County2
- Chattooga County2
- Dade County2
- Walker County2
- Troup County2
- Baldwin County2
- Bibb County2
- Bleckley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Crisp County2
- Dodge County2
- Dooly County2
- Harris County2
- Houston County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Laurens County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscogee County2
- Peach County2
- Pike County2
- Pulaski County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Schley County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumter County2
- Talbot County2
- Taylor County2
- Terrell County2
- Treutlen County2
- Turner County2
- Upson County2
- Washington County2
- Webster County2
- Wilcox County2
- Worth County2
- Baker County2
- Decatur County2
- Miller County2
- Seminole County2
- Colquitt County2
- Grady County2
- Camden County1
- Floyd County1
- Gordon County1
- Whitfield County1
- Carroll County1
- Heard County1
- Paulding County1
- Butts County1
- Clayton County1
- Columbia County1
- Coweta County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Fayette County1
- Fulton County1
- Glascock County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Henry County1
- Jasper County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Morgan County1
- Newton County1
- Putnam County1
- Rockdale County1
- Spalding County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Twiggs County1
- Walton County1
- Warren County1
- Wilkes County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Early County1
- Burke County1
- Mitchell County1
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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.