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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2017

28 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
28
Busiest month
January9 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 22, 20174 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 2, 4:46 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Colquitt and 25 more8 hr
Jan 2, 10:27 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 30 more3 hr
Jan 21, 9:04 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 70 more6 hr
Jan 21, 1:51 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 19 more4 hr
Jan 21, 2:12 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBerrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Lanier and 2 more5 hr
Jan 21, 7:51 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur and 15 more8 hr
Jan 22, 3:20 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 56 more9 hr
Jan 22, 12:47 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 100 more7 hr
Jan 22, 4:25 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 10 more3 hr
Mar 1, 12:48 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 13 more6 hr
Apr 3, 2:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan and 45 more6 hr
Apr 5, 7:54 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 66 more8 hr
Apr 5, 12:54 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 93 more10 hr
Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 26 more8 hr
Apr 5, 9:58 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford and 27 more3 hr
Apr 6, 12:15 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 1 more6 hr
Apr 27, 1:47 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Chattahoochee and 44 more8 hr
Apr 30, 2:36 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd and 8 more5 hr
May 23, 10:10 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAtkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 56 more8 hr
May 23, 2:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 21 more8 hr
May 24, 6:56 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas8 hr
May 24, 10:04 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 50 more11 hr
May 24, 11:03 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 96 more10 hr
Jun 23, 1:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more6 hr
Sep 10, 12:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCamden, Charlton, Glynn13 hr
Sep 10, 11:50 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Glynn and 6 more14 hr
Sep 11, 1:46 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 7 more10 hr
Oct 23, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBurke, Columbia, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond and 1 more8 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. January 22, 20174tornado watches
  2. January 21, 20173tornado watches
  3. April 5, 20173tornado watches
  4. May 24, 20173tornado watches
  5. April 6, 20172tornado watches
  6. May 23, 20172tornado watches
  7. September 11, 20172tornado watches
  8. January 2, 20171tornado watches
  9. January 3, 20171tornado watches
  10. March 1, 20171tornado watches
  11. April 3, 20171tornado watches
  12. April 27, 20171tornado 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.