Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 2024
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20246 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Catoosa County4
- Dade County4
- Murray County4
- Walker County4
- Whitfield County4
- Chattooga County3
- Dawson County3
- Fannin County3
- Gilmer County3
- Gordon County3
- Lumpkin County3
- Pickens County3
- Towns County3
- Union County3
- White County3
- Brantley County3
- Brooks County3
- Camden County3
- Charlton County3
- Clinch County3
- Decatur County3
- Echols County3
- Grady County3
- Lowndes County3
- Seminole County3
- Thomas County3
- Ware County3
- Banks County2
- Elbert County2
- Franklin County2
- Habersham County2
- Hall County2
- Hart County2
- Rabun County2
- Stephens County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Baker County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Berrien County2
119 more counties
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Dougherty County2
- Early County2
- Glynn County2
- Irwin County2
- Lanier County2
- Lee County2
- Miller County2
- Mitchell County2
- Pierce County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Wayne County2
- Worth County2
- Baldwin County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Bibb County1
- Burke County1
- Butts County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Columbia County1
- Coweta County1
- Crawford County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Fulton County1
- Glascock County1
- Greene County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Hancock County1
- Haralson County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Houston County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jones County1
- Lamar County1
- Lincoln County1
- McDuffie County1
- Madison County1
- Meriwether County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Newton County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Paulding County1
- Peach County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Putnam County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockdale County1
- Spalding County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Troup County1
- Twiggs County1
- Upson County1
- Walton County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wilkes County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Bleckley County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Emanuel County1
- Harris County1
- Johnson County1
- Laurens County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Muscogee County1
- Pulaski County1
- Schley County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Talbot County1
- Taylor County1
- Telfair County1
- Toombs County1
- Treutlen County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilcox County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Candler County1
- Chatham County1
- Effingham County1
- Evans County1
- Jenkins County1
- Liberty County1
- Long County1
- McIntosh County1
- Screven County1
- Tattnall County1
- Appling County1
- Coffee County1
- Jeff Davis 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.