Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 2003

15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
15
Busiest day
May 6, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCHeard5 hr
May 5, 7:15 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 19 more3 hr
May 5, 9:50 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 19 more6 hr
May 5, 9:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Clarke and 43 more8 hr
May 6, 1:55 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBurke, Columbia, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond6 hr
May 6, 2:50 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCChattooga, Dade6 hr
May 6, 8:40 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCChattooga, Dade, Walker5 hr
May 6, 1:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Burke, Butts and 59 more7 hr
May 7, 11:35 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCarroll, Chattooga, Floyd, Haralson, Heard, Polk and 1 more5 hr
May 7, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 61 more6 hr
May 7, 8:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Dodge and 23 more5 hr
May 17, 10:20 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield6 hr
May 17, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 85 more6 hr
May 18, 12:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 58 more5 hr
May 18, 1:10 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 17 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

95 more counties

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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.