Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 2017
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20173 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 23, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 56 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 6:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas | 8 hr |
| May 24, 10:04 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 50 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 96 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Atkinson County3
- Brooks County3
- Clinch County3
- Coffee County3
- Decatur County3
- Echols County3
- Grady County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Lowndes County3
- Seminole County3
- Thomas County3
- Baker County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Berrien County2
- Bibb County2
- Bleckley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Clay County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Crawford County2
- Crisp County2
- Dodge County2
- Dooly County2
- Dougherty County2
- Early County2
- Emanuel County2
- Houston County2
- Irwin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lanier County2
- Laurens County2
- Lee County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Miller County2
- Mitchell County2
- Montgomery County2
118 more counties
- Muscogee County2
- Peach County2
- Pulaski County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Schley County2
- Stewart County2
- Sumter County2
- Taylor County2
- Telfair County2
- Terrell County2
- Tift County2
- Toombs County2
- Treutlen County2
- Turner County2
- Twiggs County2
- Washington County2
- Webster County2
- Wheeler County2
- Wilcox County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Worth County2
- Appling County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Bryan County2
- Bulloch County2
- Burke County2
- Camden County2
- Candler County2
- Charlton County2
- Chatham County2
- Effingham County2
- Evans County2
- Glynn County2
- Jenkins County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- McIntosh County2
- Pierce County2
- Screven County2
- Tattnall County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Carroll County1
- Catoosa County1
- Chattooga County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Coweta County1
- Dawson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Elbert County1
- Fannin County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Greene County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Habersham County1
- Hall County1
- Haralson County1
- Hart County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Madison County1
- Meriwether County1
- Morgan County1
- Murray County1
- Newton County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Paulding County1
- Pickens County1
- Polk County1
- Rabun County1
- Rockdale County1
- Spalding County1
- Stephens County1
- Towns County1
- Troup County1
- Union County1
- Walker County1
- Walton County1
- White County1
- Whitfield County1
- Wilkes County1
- Baldwin County1
- Butts County1
- Columbia County1
- Glascock County1
- Hancock County1
- Harris County1
- Jasper County1
- Jones County1
- Lamar County1
- McDuffie County1
- Monroe County1
- Pike County1
- Putnam County1
- Richmond County1
- Talbot County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Upson County1
- Warren 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. Rebuilt daily.