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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan and 27 more5 hr
May 3, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHeard6 hr
May 3, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaker, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Berrien, Bibb and 76 more6 hr
May 3, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks and 128 more7 hr
May 3, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChatham, Effingham, McIntosh4 hr
May 4, 1:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks and 42 more6 hr
May 4, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 29 more5 hr
May 4, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 27 more5 hr
May 7, 11:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke, Columbia and 36 more5 hr
May 21, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCRabun, Towns5 hr
May 25, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCatoosa6 hr
May 26, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon and 3 more5 hr
May 27, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHart7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.