Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Georgia, August 2008
11 tornado watches in August 2008. 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 56 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:48 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 44 more | 11 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berrien, Brooks, Clinch, Colquitt, Cook, Echols and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Stewart and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:28 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 36 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien and 101 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 53 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County7
- Grady County7
- Mitchell County7
- Baker County6
- Berrien County6
- Brooks County6
- Calhoun County6
- Chattahoochee County6
- Clay County6
- Colquitt County6
- Cook County6
- Dougherty County6
- Early County6
- Harris County6
- Lanier County6
- Lowndes County6
- Marion County6
- Miller County6
- Muscogee County6
- Quitman County6
- Randolph County6
- Seminole County6
- Stewart County6
- Turner County6
- Webster County6
- Worth County6
- Ben Hill County5
- Bleckley County5
- Crisp County5
- Irwin County5
- Pulaski County5
- Schley County5
- Sumter County5
- Terrell County5
- Thomas County5
- Tift County5
- Wilcox County5
- Bibb County4
- Clinch County4
- Crawford County4
105 more counties
- Dodge County4
- Dooly County4
- Echols County4
- Emanuel County4
- Houston County4
- Johnson County4
- Laurens County4
- Lee County4
- Macon County4
- Montgomery County4
- Peach County4
- Talbot County4
- Taylor County4
- Telfair County4
- Toombs County4
- Treutlen County4
- Twiggs County4
- Wheeler County4
- Troup County4
- Atkinson County3
- Coffee County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Heard County3
- Lamar County3
- Meriwether County3
- Pike County3
- Upson County3
- Jones County3
- Monroe County3
- Appling County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Bryan County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Chatham County2
- Effingham County2
- Evans County2
- Glynn County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- McIntosh County2
- Pierce County2
- Tattnall County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Clayton County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Fayette County2
- Fulton County2
- Henry County2
- Spalding County2
- Baldwin County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Burke County2
- Butts County2
- Clarke County2
- Columbia County2
- Elbert County2
- Franklin County2
- Glascock County2
- Greene County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Habersham County2
- Hall County2
- Hancock County2
- Hart County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- McDuffie County2
- Madison County2
- Morgan County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Oglethorpe County2
- Putnam County2
- Rabun County2
- Richmond County2
- Rockdale County2
- Stephens County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Walton County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wilkes County2
- Bulloch County1
- Candler County1
- Jenkins County1
- Screven County1
- Bartow County1
- Carroll County1
- Chattooga County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cobb County1
- Douglas County1
- Floyd County1
- Haralson County1
- Paulding County1
- Polk County1
- White 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.