Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2016
17 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest month
- February4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 24, 20163 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Seminole | 10 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 23, 9:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:14 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:58 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bulloch, Candler and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 65 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan and 54 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 50 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Decatur and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 1, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 31 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 9 hr |
| Nov 29, 11:11 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Nov 30, 3:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 30, 12:06 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Calhoun and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 5, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 24 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Seminole County8
- Decatur County7
- Baker County7
- Miller County7
- Brooks County6
- Dougherty County6
- Early County6
- Grady County6
- Lanier County6
- Lowndes County6
- Mitchell County6
- Thomas County6
- Ben Hill County5
- Berrien County5
- Calhoun County5
- Colquitt County5
- Cook County5
- Irwin County5
- Lee County5
- Tift County5
- Turner County5
- Worth County5
- Telfair County5
- Bulloch County5
- Candler County5
- Clinch County5
- Echols County5
- Evans County5
- Jenkins County5
- Screven County5
- Tattnall County5
- Bryan County5
- Chatham County5
- Effingham County5
- Clay County4
- Quitman County4
- Randolph County4
- Terrell County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Crawford County4
106 more counties
- Crisp County4
- Dodge County4
- Emanuel County4
- Macon County4
- Marion County4
- Montgomery County4
- Schley County4
- Stewart County4
- Sumter County4
- Taylor County4
- Toombs County4
- Treutlen County4
- Webster County4
- Wheeler County4
- Wilcox County4
- Atkinson County4
- Brantley County4
- Charlton County4
- Coffee County4
- Long County4
- Pierce County4
- Ware County4
- Bibb County3
- Harris County3
- Laurens County3
- Muscogee County3
- Peach County3
- Pulaski County3
- Talbot County3
- Appling County3
- Bacon County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Wayne County3
- Bartow County3
- Catoosa County3
- Chattooga County3
- Cherokee County3
- Dade County3
- Haralson County3
- Paulding County3
- Walker County3
- Whitfield County3
- Camden County3
- Glynn County3
- Liberty County3
- McIntosh County3
- Bleckley County2
- Dooly County2
- Houston County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Twiggs County2
- Washington County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Butts County2
- Carroll County2
- Clarke County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Fannin County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Forsyth County2
- Fulton County2
- Gilmer County2
- Gordon County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Heard County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Madison County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Murray County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Pickens County2
- Pike County2
- Polk County2
- Rockdale County2
- Spalding County2
- Troup County2
- Upson County2
- Walton County2
- Dawson County1
- Greene County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Putnam County1
- Towns County1
- Union County1
- White County1
- Baldwin County1
- Burke County1
- Glascock County1
- Richmond County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.