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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2021

29 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
29
Busiest month
March7 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 18, 20214 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 1, 3:27 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Columbia, Crawford, Dooly and 19 more5 hr
Jan 26, 1:37 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Floyd and 3 more4 hr
Feb 15, 12:55 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 4 more5 hr
Feb 15, 3:02 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAtkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 30 more7 hr
Feb 18, 2:49 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Calhoun, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 2 more6 hr
Feb 18, 8:45 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAtkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 30 more7 hr
Mar 18, 12:02 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Bibb, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 38 more9 hr
Mar 18, 7:53 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 32 more5 hr
Mar 18, 11:42 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 21 more6 hr
Mar 18, 2:08 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCElbert, Lincoln4 hr
Mar 25, 12:26 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more9 hr
Mar 25, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 41 more8 hr
Mar 26, 1:55 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Clayton, Coweta and 31 more3 hr
Apr 10, 10:20 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 8 more4 hr
Apr 24, 6:22 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more9 hr
Apr 24, 10:35 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 15 more7 hr
May 3, 10:29 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 45 more5 hr
May 3, 1:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBurke, Columbia, Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond6 hr
Jun 19, 10:33 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Early, Harris, Macon and 13 more9 hr
Jun 19, 8:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 35 more13 hr
Jul 7, 6:46 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBrantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 3 more6 hr
Jul 7, 1:04 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 15 more7 hr
Jul 7, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 11 more11 hr
Aug 16, 8:33 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Brooks, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady and 4 more13 hr
Aug 17, 3:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 49 more9 hr
Aug 17, 10:42 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Rabun8 hr
Oct 6, 3:53 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Douglas and 9 more7 hr
Dec 29, 4:53 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCChattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker6 hr
Dec 29, 10:16 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee and 51 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. March 18, 20214tornado watches
  2. July 7, 20213tornado watches
  3. February 15, 20212tornado watches
  4. February 18, 20212tornado watches
  5. March 25, 20212tornado watches
  6. April 24, 20212tornado watches
  7. May 3, 20212tornado watches
  8. August 17, 20212tornado watches
  9. January 1, 20211tornado watches
  10. January 26, 20211tornado watches
  11. March 26, 20211tornado watches
  12. April 10, 20211tornado 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.