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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2012

23 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
23
Busiest month
February6 tornado watches
Busiest day
February 24, 20123 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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
Jan 21, 5:55 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 73 more7 hr
Jan 21, 12:28 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch and 86 more8 hr
Jan 23, 3:44 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd and 9 more9 hr
Jan 23, 8:49 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp and 24 more5 hr
Jan 26, 4:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 51 more6 hr
Feb 18, 3:58 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 5 more5 hr
Feb 18, 8:24 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 30 more6 hr
Feb 24, 8:48 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 64 more7 hr
Feb 24, 9:17 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens7 hr
Feb 24, 12:04 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 52 more7 hr
Feb 29, 6:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 21 more3 hr
Mar 2, 10:25 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield5 hr
Mar 2, 3:19 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 23 more8 hr
Mar 2, 5:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCCarroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas and 11 more7 hr
Mar 2, 10:54 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 61 more6 hr
Mar 3, 7:35 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 49 more6 hr
Mar 3, 1:04 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAtkinson, Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch and 12 more5 hr
Jun 10, 12:41 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 19 more6 hr
Sep 17, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 84 more8 hr
Oct 1, 2:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 68 more7 hr
Dec 17, 1:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 35 more5 hr
Dec 20, 10:19 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 8 more9 hr
Dec 25, 10:23 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 23 more6 hr

By county

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

119 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 24, 20123tornado watches
  2. March 2, 20123tornado watches
  3. March 3, 20123tornado watches
  4. January 21, 20122tornado watches
  5. January 23, 20122tornado watches
  6. January 26, 20121tornado watches
  7. February 18, 20121tornado watches
  8. February 19, 20121tornado watches
  9. February 29, 20121tornado watches
  10. June 10, 20121tornado watches
  11. September 17, 20121tornado watches
  12. October 1, 20121tornado watches

Nearby

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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.