Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Georgia, March 2009
9 tornado watches in March 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 28, 20094 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 1, 2:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 8:27 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butts, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Clayton, Coweta and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Lanier and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:17 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd and 7 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Early County5
- Miller County5
- Seminole County5
- Decatur County4
- Grady County4
- Mitchell County4
- Calhoun County3
- Clay County3
- Quitman County3
- Randolph County3
- Terrell County3
- Baker County3
- Berrien County3
- Brooks County3
- Colquitt County3
- Cook County3
- Lanier County3
- Lowndes County3
- Thomas County3
- Appling County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Bryan County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Chatham County2
- Clinch County2
- Echols County2
- Glynn County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- McIntosh County2
- Pierce County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Crawford County2
- Schley County2
- Sumter County2
- Taylor County2
75 more counties
- Ben Hill County2
- Dougherty County2
- Irwin County2
- Lee County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Worth County2
- Butts County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Clayton County1
- Coweta County1
- Fayette County1
- Harris County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Lamar County1
- Marion County1
- Meriwether County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscogee County1
- Pike County1
- Spalding County1
- Stewart County1
- Talbot County1
- Troup County1
- Upson County1
- Webster County1
- Baldwin County1
- Bibb County1
- Bleckley County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Emanuel County1
- Houston County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Laurens County1
- Macon County1
- Montgomery County1
- Peach County1
- Pulaski County1
- Telfair County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Twiggs County1
- Washington County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilcox County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Bulloch County1
- Burke County1
- Candler County1
- Coffee County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Jeff Davis County1
- Jenkins County1
- Richmond County1
- Screven County1
- Tattnall County1
- Bartow County1
- Carroll County1
- Catoosa County1
- Chattooga County1
- Dade County1
- Floyd County1
- Gordon County1
- Haralson County1
- Murray County1
- Paulding County1
- Polk County1
- Walker County1
- Whitfield 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.