Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 2008
7 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20084 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch and 84 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 10:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow and 112 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 100 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 5:52 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jenkins, Screven | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Haralson County4
- Polk County4
- Bryan County4
- Chatham County4
- Evans County4
- Jenkins County4
- Liberty County4
- Long County4
- McIntosh County4
- Screven County4
- Tattnall County4
- Bartow County3
- Chattooga County3
- Floyd County3
- Gordon County3
- Baldwin County3
- Barrow County3
- Bibb County3
- Bleckley County3
- Bulloch County3
- Burke County3
- Butts County3
- Candler County3
- Carroll County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Clarke County3
- Clayton County3
- Cobb County3
- Columbia County3
- Coweta County3
- Crawford County3
- Crisp County3
- DeKalb County3
- Dodge County3
- Dooly County3
- Douglas County3
- Effingham County3
- Emanuel County3
- Fayette County3
- Fulton County3
113 more counties
- Glascock County3
- Greene County3
- Gwinnett County3
- Hancock County3
- Harris County3
- Heard County3
- Henry County3
- Houston County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Lamar County3
- Laurens County3
- Lincoln County3
- McDuffie County3
- Macon County3
- Marion County3
- Meriwether County3
- Monroe County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morgan County3
- Muscogee County3
- Newton County3
- Oconee County3
- Oglethorpe County3
- Paulding County3
- Peach County3
- Pike County3
- Pulaski County3
- Putnam County3
- Richmond County3
- Rockdale County3
- Schley County3
- Spalding County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumter County3
- Talbot County3
- Taliaferro County3
- Taylor County3
- Telfair County3
- Toombs County3
- Treutlen County3
- Troup County3
- Twiggs County3
- Upson County3
- Walton County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Webster County3
- Wheeler County3
- Wilcox County3
- Wilkes County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Appling County3
- Bacon County3
- Brantley County3
- Coffee County3
- Glynn County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Pierce County3
- Wayne County3
- Catoosa County2
- Dade County2
- Murray County2
- Walker County2
- Whitfield County2
- Banks County2
- Cherokee County2
- Dawson County2
- Forsyth County2
- Hall County2
- Jackson County2
- Lumpkin County2
- Madison County2
- Pickens County2
- Atkinson County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Berrien County2
- Brooks County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Clinch County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Decatur County2
- Echols County2
- Grady County2
- Irwin County2
- Lanier County2
- Lowndes County2
- Mitchell County2
- Thomas County2
- Tift County2
- Ware County2
- Worth County2
- Fannin County1
- Gilmer County1
- Elbert County1
- Franklin County1
- Hart County1
- Baker County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Lee County1
- Miller County1
- Quitman County1
- Randolph County1
- Seminole County1
- Terrell County1
- Turner 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.