Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Georgia, February 2008
8 tornado watches in February 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 February 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 17, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 5:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 8:06 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:32 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay, Coweta and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Burke and 51 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 18 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grady County5
- Baker County4
- Calhoun County4
- Clay County4
- Dougherty County4
- Early County4
- Lee County4
- Miller County4
- Quitman County4
- Randolph County4
- Seminole County4
- Terrell County4
- Berrien County4
- Brooks County4
- Colquitt County4
- Cook County4
- Irwin County4
- Lanier County4
- Lowndes County4
- Thomas County4
- Tift County4
- Ben Hill County3
- Decatur County3
- Mitchell County3
- Worth County3
- Bartow County2
- Haralson County2
- Polk County2
- Bibb County2
- Butts County2
- Carroll County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- Crawford County2
- Crisp County2
- DeKalb County2
- Dooly County2
96 more counties
- Douglas County2
- Fayette County2
- Fulton County2
- Harris County2
- Heard County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscogee County2
- Newton County2
- Paulding County2
- Peach County2
- Pike County2
- Rockdale County2
- Schley County2
- Spalding County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumter County2
- Talbot County2
- Taylor County2
- Troup County2
- Upson County2
- Webster County2
- Turner County2
- Appling County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Clinch County2
- Coffee County2
- Echols County2
- Glynn County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Pierce County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Catoosa County1
- Chattooga County1
- Dade County1
- Fannin County1
- Floyd County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Murray County1
- Walker County1
- Whitfield County1
- Pickens County1
- Baldwin County1
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Clarke County1
- Forsyth County1
- Greene County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Hall County1
- Jackson County1
- Madison County1
- Morgan County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Putnam County1
- Walton County1
- Bleckley County1
- Burke County1
- Columbia County1
- Dodge County1
- Emanuel County1
- Glascock County1
- Hancock County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Laurens County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pulaski County1
- Richmond County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Telfair County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Twiggs County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilcox County1
- Wilkes County1
- Wilkinson 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.