Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2024
35 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 35
- Busiest month
- May12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 7:07 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 60 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 9, 11:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 27, 2:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:01 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty and 12 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:42 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 45 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee and 49 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Crisp and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:34 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:12 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:32 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Ware | 7 hr |
| May 8, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 11:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Elbert and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 7 hr |
| May 9, 5:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 75 more | 9 hr |
| May 9, 9:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Emanuel and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 12:12 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 14, 2:47 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas | 5 hr |
| May 14, 6:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 10:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Echols, Grady, Lowndes, Thomas | 9 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Lanier and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Evans and 8 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 9 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:32 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 34 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 26, 10:49 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 11 hr |
| Sep 26, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 38 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 29, 1:54 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 91 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 6:02 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 8:34 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Brooks, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 5 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brooks County13
- Grady County13
- Thomas County13
- Decatur County12
- Echols County12
- Lowndes County12
- Seminole County12
- Ware County12
- Camden County12
- Charlton County12
- Baker County11
- Clinch County11
- Miller County11
- Mitchell County11
- Colquitt County10
- Brantley County10
- Dougherty County9
- Lanier County9
- Turner County9
- Worth County9
- Bryan County9
- Chatham County9
- Glynn County9
- Liberty County9
- Long County9
- McIntosh County9
- Pierce County9
- Wayne County9
- Ben Hill County8
- Berrien County8
- Calhoun County8
- Clay County8
- Cook County8
- Early County8
- Irwin County8
- Lee County8
- Quitman County8
- Randolph County8
- Terrell County8
- Tift County8
119 more counties
- Effingham County8
- Evans County8
- Tattnall County8
- Atkinson County7
- Bacon County7
- Emanuel County7
- Montgomery County7
- Telfair County7
- Toombs County7
- Treutlen County7
- Wheeler County7
- Bulloch County7
- Candler County7
- Bibb County6
- Bleckley County6
- Coffee County6
- Crisp County6
- Dodge County6
- Dooly County6
- Houston County6
- Jeff Davis County6
- Jefferson County6
- Johnson County6
- Laurens County6
- Pulaski County6
- Twiggs County6
- Washington County6
- Wilcox County6
- Wilkinson County6
- Appling County6
- Burke County6
- Columbia County6
- Jenkins County6
- Lincoln County6
- McDuffie County6
- Richmond County6
- Screven County6
- Baldwin County5
- Glascock County5
- Hancock County5
- Jones County5
- Macon County5
- Peach County5
- Sumter County5
- Warren County5
- Catoosa County5
- Dade County5
- Murray County5
- Walker County5
- Whitfield County5
- Crawford County4
- Schley County4
- Stewart County4
- Taylor County4
- Webster County4
- Chattooga County4
- Gordon County4
- Taliaferro County4
- Wilkes County4
- Elbert County4
- Franklin County4
- Hart County4
- Butts County3
- Carroll County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Clayton County3
- Cobb County3
- Coweta County3
- DeKalb County3
- Douglas County3
- Fayette County3
- Fulton County3
- Greene County3
- Haralson County3
- Harris County3
- Heard County3
- Henry County3
- Jasper County3
- Lamar County3
- Marion County3
- Meriwether County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Muscogee County3
- Newton County3
- Oconee County3
- Oglethorpe County3
- Paulding County3
- Pike County3
- Polk County3
- Putnam County3
- Rockdale County3
- Spalding County3
- Talbot County3
- Troup County3
- Upson County3
- Walton County3
- Dawson County3
- Fannin County3
- Gilmer County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Pickens County3
- Towns County3
- Union County3
- White County3
- Habersham County3
- Rabun County3
- Stephens County3
- Bartow County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clarke County2
- Floyd County2
- Barrow County2
- Jackson County2
- Madison County2
- Banks County2
- Hall County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Forsyth 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.