Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 2026
2 tornado watches in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20261 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 6, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 65 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 2:58 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Banks County1
- Barrow County1
- Bartow County1
- Butts County1
- Carroll County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Chattooga County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Cobb County1
- Coweta County1
- Dawson County1
- DeKalb County1
- Douglas County1
- Elbert County1
- Fannin County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Forsyth County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Greene County1
- Gwinnett County1
- Habersham County1
- Hall County1
- Haralson County1
- Harris County1
- Hart County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Lumpkin County1
53 more counties
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Meriwether County1
- Morgan County1
- Murray County1
- Muscogee County1
- Newton County1
- Oconee County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Paulding County1
- Pickens County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Rabun County1
- Rockdale County1
- Schley County1
- Spalding County1
- Stephens County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Talbot County1
- Taylor County1
- Towns County1
- Troup County1
- Union County1
- Upson County1
- Walton County1
- Webster County1
- White County1
- Whitfield County1
- Wilkes County1
- Baker County1
- Ben Hill County1
- Berrien County1
- Brooks County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clay County1
- Colquitt County1
- Cook County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Grady County1
- Irwin County1
- Lanier County1
- Lowndes County1
- Miller County1
- Mitchell County1
- Seminole County1
- Thomas County1
- Tift County1
- Turner County1
- Worth County1
Nearby
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.