Winter Storm Watches in Georgia
87 winter storm watches since 1986. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 87
- Busiest year
- 201014 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 5over 19 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rabun County25
- Fannin County25
- Gilmer County25
- Lumpkin County25
- Towns County25
- Union County25
- White County25
- Dawson County22
- Hall County21
- Murray County21
- Pickens County21
- Forsyth County20
- Habersham County19
- Banks County19
- Catoosa County19
- Dade County19
- Gwinnett County19
- Walker County19
- Whitfield County19
- Barrow County18
- Cherokee County18
- Jackson County18
- Stephens County17
- Chattooga County17
- Cobb County16
- DeKalb County16
- Fulton County16
- Gordon County16
- Franklin County16
- Bartow County15
- Floyd County15
- Paulding County15
- Hart County15
- Madison County15
- Carroll County14
- Douglas County14
- Clarke County14
- Elbert County14
- Oconee County14
- Haralson County13
115 more counties
- Walton County13
- Clayton County13
- Oglethorpe County13
- Polk County12
- Coweta County12
- Fayette County12
- Lincoln County11
- Henry County11
- Morgan County11
- Newton County11
- Rockdale County11
- Heard County10
- Wilkes County10
- Butts County9
- Greene County9
- Jasper County9
- Taliaferro County9
- Putnam County8
- Spalding County8
- Baldwin County7
- Columbia County7
- Glascock County7
- Hancock County7
- Jefferson County7
- Jenkins County7
- Jones County7
- McDuffie County7
- Richmond County7
- Screven County7
- Warren County7
- Washington County7
- Burke County6
- Effingham County6
- Harris County6
- Lamar County6
- Monroe County6
- Pike County6
- Talbot County6
- Twiggs County6
- Upson County6
- Wilkinson County6
- Bibb County5
- Bulloch County5
- Candler County5
- Crawford County5
- Emanuel County5
- Houston County5
- Johnson County5
- Peach County5
- Taylor County5
- Meriwether County5
- Troup County5
- Appling County4
- Atkinson County4
- Bacon County4
- Bleckley County4
- Calhoun County4
- Chattahoochee County4
- Clay County4
- Coffee County4
- Crisp County4
- Dodge County4
- Dooly County4
- Early County4
- Evans County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- Laurens County4
- Lee County4
- Long County4
- Macon County4
- Marion County4
- Montgomery County4
- Muscogee County4
- Pierce County4
- Pulaski County4
- Quitman County4
- Randolph County4
- Schley County4
- Stewart County4
- Sumter County4
- Tattnall County4
- Telfair County4
- Terrell County4
- Toombs County4
- Treutlen County4
- Wayne County4
- Webster County4
- Wheeler County4
- Wilcox County4
- Baker County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Colquitt County3
- Dougherty County3
- Irwin County3
- Miller County3
- Mitchell County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Brantley County3
- Clinch County3
- Echols County3
- Glynn County3
- Decatur County2
- Seminole County2
- Camden County2
- Berrien County1
- Brooks County1
- Charlton County1
- Cook County1
- Grady County1
- Lanier County1
- Lowndes County1
- Thomas County1
- Ware County1
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 12:23 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, Screven | 24 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:16 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 23 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:12 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Butts, Cherokee, Clarke and 40 more | 32 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:03 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAE | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 23 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:57 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | CAE | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 48 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:37 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens | 45 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:17 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 52 more | 61 hr |
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. Rebuilt daily.