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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2020

26 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
26
Busiest month
April11 tornado watches
Busiest day
February 6, 20204 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 11, 1:42 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 61 more7 hr
Jan 11, 3:44 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 9 more5 hr
Jan 11, 5:38 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Dodge and 34 more6 hr
Feb 6, 4:27 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 51 more9 hr
Feb 6, 10:12 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 21 more7 hr
Feb 6, 12:17 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 102 more8 hr
Feb 6, 5:30 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 14 more7 hr
Mar 4, 10:16 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more6 hr
Mar 24, 8:44 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more3 hr
Mar 31, 9:51 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 67 more6 hr
Mar 31, 2:22 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 32 more6 hr
Apr 12, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 9 more5 hr
Apr 12, 8:57 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCRabun6 hr
Apr 12, 11:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb and 86 more8 hr
Apr 13, 1:51 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCElbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens6 hr
Apr 13, 3:20 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 54 more8 hr
Apr 19, 11:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 37 more10 hr
Apr 20, 2:19 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 18 more9 hr
Apr 23, 10:52 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 40 more6 hr
Apr 23, 3:47 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas6 hr
Apr 23, 6:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCamden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Ware5 hr
Apr 25, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCFannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens and 3 more4 hr
Aug 24, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Berrien, Calhoun, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 9 more8 hr
Sep 16, 6:55 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 8 more14 hr
Oct 10, 1:47 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Cobb and 33 more7 hr
Oct 29, 12:34 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 19 more7 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 6, 20204tornado watches
  2. April 13, 20204tornado watches
  3. January 11, 20203tornado watches
  4. April 23, 20203tornado watches
  5. March 31, 20202tornado watches
  6. April 20, 20202tornado watches
  7. March 4, 20201tornado watches
  8. March 25, 20201tornado watches
  9. April 12, 20201tornado watches
  10. April 25, 20201tornado watches
  11. August 24, 20201tornado watches
  12. September 16, 20201tornado watches

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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.