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Metro Atlanta, north Georgia tornado watch expires | List of counties it included

A tornado watch for much of the state of Georgia was issued before 6 a.m. It will remain for the central part of the state through 5 p.m.

ATLANTA — Severe weather impacted north Georgia late Wednesday and into early Thursday morning, with multiple rounds of storms coming through.

Both north Georgia again and the larger metro Atlanta region were under a tornado watch that expired at 1 p.m.

RELATED: North Georgia pounded by overnight storms, tornado watch across metro Atlanta region | Latest updates

Farther south, the region including Macon and Warner Robins in central Georgia is under a tornado watch until 5 p.m. 

The tornado watch was issued just before 6 a.m.

Here are all the counties that were included in the tornado watch:

Metro Atlanta, north Georgia, central Georgia tornado watch on Thursday, May 9 | Counties list

In alphabetical order.

(Update: As of 7:55 a.m., the watch was canceled for Pickens, Chattooga, Towns, Gordon, Gilmer, Fannin and Union counties)

(Update 2: After noon Thursday, the portion of the tornado watch that included metro Atlanta and north Georgia was canceled.)

  • Baldwin
  • Banks
  • Barrow
  • Bartow
  • Bibb
  • Burke
  • Butts
  • Carroll
  • Catoosa
  • Chattooga
  • Cherokee
  • Clarke
  • Clayton
  • Cobb
  • Columbia
  • Coweta
  • Crawford
  • Dawson
  • DeKalb
  • Douglas
  • Elbert
  • Fannin
  • Fayette
  • Floyd
  • Forsyth
  • Franklin
  • Fulton
  • Gilmer
  • Glascock
  • Gordon
  • Greene
  • Gwinnett
  • Habersham
  • Hall
  • Hancock
  • Haralson
  • Hart
  • Heard
  • Henry
  • Houston
  • Jackson
  • Jasper
  • Jefferson
  • Jones
  • Lamar
  • Lincoln
  • Lumpkin
  • Madison
  • McDuffie
  • Meriwether
  • Monroe
  • Morgan
  • Murray
  • Newton
  • Oconee
  • Oglethorpe
  • Paulding
  • Peach
  • Pickens
  • Pike
  • Polk
  • Putnam
  • Rabun
  • Richmond
  • Rockdale
  • Spalding
  • Stephens
  • Taliaferro
  • Towns
  • Troup
  • Twiggs
  • Union
  • Upson
  • Walker
  • Walton
  • Warren
  • Washington
  • White
  • Whitfield
  • Wilkes
  • Wilkinson

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