Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, May 1988
46 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1988. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 46
- Busiest day
- May 16, 198815 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 4, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 45 min |
| May 4, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 53 min |
| May 9, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 54 min |
| May 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty | 54 min |
| May 10, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 53 min |
| May 10, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Irwin | 69 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 45 min |
| May 10, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 39 min |
| May 10, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 64 min |
| May 10, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 69 min |
| May 16, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 26 min |
| May 16, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 65 min |
| May 16, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 29 min |
| May 16, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert | 52 min |
| May 16, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 48 min |
| May 16, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 46 min |
| May 16, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 62 min |
| May 16, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 62 min |
| May 16, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro | 56 min |
| May 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia | 43 min |
| May 16, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 56 min |
| May 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 50 min |
| May 16, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia, McDuffie | 59 min |
| May 16, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson | 59 min |
| May 16, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Sumter | 37 min |
| May 17, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham | 57 min |
| May 17, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Emanuel, Jefferson | 56 min |
| May 17, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Screven | 45 min |
| May 17, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Chatham | 58 min |
| May 23, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 66 min |
| May 23, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 52 min |
| May 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Ben Hill, Telfair | 49 min |
| May 23, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Toombs | 53 min |
| May 24, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 40 min |
| May 24, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 42 min |
| May 24, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 57 min |
| May 24, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 69 min |
| May 24, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Tattnall, Toombs | 69 min |
| May 24, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 66 min |
| May 24, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 28 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Ben Hill, Irwin | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Turner | 69 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 38 min |
| May 24, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 29 min |
| May 24, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Chatham | 36 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County3
- Dougherty County2
- Tift County2
- Irwin County2
- Colquitt County2
- Lamar County2
- Pike County2
- Butts County2
- Columbia County2
- Chatham County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Toombs County2
- Hancock County1
- Dade County1
- Baker County1
- Mitchell County1
- Grady County1
- Thomas County1
- Washington County1
- Rockdale County1
- Newton County1
- Clayton County1
- Elbert County1
- Coweta County1
- Henry County1
- Meriwether County1
- Spalding County1
- Greene County1
- Oglethorpe County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Upson County1
- McDuffie County1
- Johnson County1
- Sumter County1
- Habersham County1
- Burke County1
- Emanuel County1
- Jefferson County1
- Screven County1
- Glascock 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.