Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, May 1998
13 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19984 severe thunderstorm 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 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Heard | 6 hr |
| May 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Berrien, Bibb and 76 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 128 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chatham, Effingham, McIntosh | 4 hr |
| May 4, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks and 42 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke, Columbia and 36 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Rabun, Towns | 5 hr |
| May 25, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hart | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Emanuel County5
- Jenkins County5
- McIntosh County5
- Appling County4
- Atkinson County4
- Bacon County4
- Berrien County4
- Brantley County4
- Bryan County4
- Bulloch County4
- Burke County4
- Camden County4
- Candler County4
- Coffee County4
- Effingham County4
- Evans County4
- Glynn County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- Lanier County4
- Liberty County4
- Long County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pierce County4
- Screven County4
- Tattnall County4
- Toombs County4
- Ware County4
- Wayne County4
- Bibb County4
- Crawford County4
- Houston County4
- Irwin County4
- Peach County4
- Talbot County4
- Taylor County4
- Twiggs County4
- Ben Hill County4
- Wilkinson County4
- Chatham County3
- Clinch County3
112 more counties
- Lowndes County3
- Heard County3
- Baker County3
- Bleckley County3
- Butts County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Clay County3
- Colquitt County3
- Cook County3
- Crisp County3
- Decatur County3
- Dooly County3
- Dougherty County3
- Early County3
- Grady County3
- Jasper County3
- Jones County3
- Lamar County3
- Lee County3
- Macon County3
- Marion County3
- Miller County3
- Mitchell County3
- Monroe County3
- Morgan County3
- Muscogee County3
- Newton County3
- Oconee County3
- Pulaski County3
- Putnam County3
- Quitman County3
- Randolph County3
- Schley County3
- Seminole County3
- Stewart County3
- Sumter County3
- Terrell County3
- Thomas County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Upson County3
- Walton County3
- Webster County3
- Wilcox County3
- Worth County3
- Dodge County3
- Hart County3
- Johnson County3
- Telfair County3
- Treutlen County3
- Wheeler County3
- Charlton County2
- Banks County2
- Barrow County2
- Bartow County2
- Brooks County2
- Carroll County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clayton County2
- Cobb County2
- Coweta County2
- DeKalb County2
- Douglas County2
- Fayette County2
- Forsyth County2
- Fulton County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Hall County2
- Haralson County2
- Harris County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Meriwether County2
- Paulding County2
- Pike County2
- Polk County2
- Rockdale County2
- Spalding County2
- Troup County2
- Baldwin County2
- Clarke County2
- Columbia County2
- Elbert County2
- Glascock County2
- Greene County2
- Hancock County2
- Jefferson County2
- Laurens County2
- Lincoln County2
- McDuffie County2
- Madison County2
- Oglethorpe County2
- Richmond County2
- Taliaferro County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wilkes County2
- Catoosa County2
- Echols County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Rabun County1
- Towns County1
- Chattooga County1
- Dade County1
- Fannin County1
- Gilmer County1
- Gordon County1
- Murray County1
- Walker County1
- Whitfield 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.