Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2018
16 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 20, 20183 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 9:08 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:24 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Charlton | 9 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Charlton and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph, Seminole | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:12 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 9 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 7 hr |
| Oct 10, 5:46 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt and 18 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 10, 2:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow and 110 more | 11 hr |
| Oct 10, 11:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 7 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 1, 12:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Seminole | 7 hr |
| Dec 1, 6:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 26 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:48 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 38 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Seminole County8
- Early County7
- Miller County7
- Decatur County7
- Grady County6
- Charlton County5
- Echols County5
- Clay County5
- Quitman County5
- Randolph County5
- Telfair County5
- Wheeler County5
- Baker County5
- Calhoun County5
- Dougherty County5
- Lee County5
- Terrell County5
- Ben Hill County5
- Berrien County5
- Brooks County5
- Colquitt County5
- Cook County5
- Irwin County5
- Lanier County5
- Lowndes County5
- Mitchell County5
- Thomas County5
- Tift County5
- Turner County5
- Worth County5
- Camden County4
- Appling County4
- Bacon County4
- Brantley County4
- Bryan County4
- Bulloch County4
- Chatham County4
- Clinch County4
- Effingham County4
- Evans County4
112 more counties
- Glynn County4
- Liberty County4
- Long County4
- McIntosh County4
- Pierce County4
- Tattnall County4
- Ware County4
- Wayne County4
- Dodge County4
- Laurens County4
- Montgomery County4
- Toombs County4
- Dade County3
- Johnson County3
- Walker County3
- Atkinson County3
- Candler County3
- Coffee County3
- Jeff Davis County3
- Treutlen County3
- Burke County3
- Columbia County3
- Lincoln County3
- McDuffie County3
- Richmond County3
- Crisp County3
- Wilcox County3
- Baldwin County2
- Barrow County2
- Bibb County2
- Butts County2
- Chattooga County2
- Clarke County2
- Crawford County2
- Floyd County2
- Glascock County2
- Gordon County2
- Greene County2
- Hancock County2
- Henry County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Meriwether County2
- Monroe County2
- Morgan County2
- Newton County2
- Oconee County2
- Pickens County2
- Pike County2
- Putnam County2
- Rockdale County2
- Spalding County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Twiggs County2
- Upson County2
- Walton County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Emanuel County2
- Jenkins County2
- Screven County2
- Catoosa County2
- Murray County2
- Whitfield County2
- Dooly County2
- Pulaski County2
- Sumter County2
- Bartow County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Coweta County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Fayette County1
- Forsyth County1
- Fulton County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Haralson County1
- Heard County1
- Paulding County1
- Polk County1
- Troup County1
- Bleckley County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Muscogee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Peach County1
- Schley County1
- Stewart County1
- Talbot County1
- Taylor County1
- Webster County1
- Wilkes County1
- Elbert County1
- Dawson County1
- Fannin County1
- Gilmer County1
- Habersham County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Rabun County1
- Towns County1
- Union County1
- White 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.