Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, April 1998
66 tornado warnings in April 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 66
- Busiest day
- April 9, 199822 tornado warnings
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson | 22 min |
| Apr 3, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 3:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 3:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Stewart | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Webster | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 4:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 5:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 18 min |
| Apr 3, 6:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 7:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 7:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Spalding | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 7:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 9:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Upson | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 9:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 10:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Putnam | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 11:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford | 17 min |
| Apr 8, 7:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 14 min |
| Apr 8, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike | 28 min |
| Apr 8, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 10:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 11:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 11:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 12:07 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 12:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 12:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 12:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 27 min |
| Apr 9, 1:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 1:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 1:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 32 min |
| Apr 9, 3:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 4:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 5:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 5:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 66 min |
| Apr 9, 6:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, Tattnall | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 6:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 11:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 18 min |
| Apr 17, 12:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 12:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 1:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 3:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 11:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 34 min |
| Apr 17, 11:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 18, 8:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Apr 18, 8:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 10:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 11:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jones, Twiggs | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 34 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Walker County4
- Laurens County4
- Floyd County4
- Johnson County3
- Emanuel County3
- Catoosa County3
- Bleckley County3
- Twiggs County3
- Gordon County2
- Coweta County2
- Henry County2
- Meriwether County2
- Troup County2
- Bartow County2
- Cobb County2
- Gwinnett County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Long County2
- Cherokee County2
- Pickens County2
- Washington County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jenkins County1
- Stewart County1
- Screven County1
- Webster County1
- Morgan County1
- Heard County1
- Fayette County1
- Clayton County1
- Spalding County1
- Butts County1
- Newton County1
- Rockdale County1
- Upson County1
- Hancock County1
- Taliaferro County1
- Warren County1
- Putnam County1
- Wilkinson County1
26 more counties
- Crawford County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Haralson County1
- Paulding County1
- Fulton County1
- DeKalb County1
- Barrow County1
- Hall County1
- Jackson County1
- Douglas County1
- Bryan County1
- Bulloch County1
- Effingham County1
- Appling County1
- Pulaski County1
- Tattnall County1
- Dodge County1
- Liberty County1
- Chattooga County1
- Dawson County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Dade County1
- Whitfield County1
- Jones County1
- Baldwin 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. Rebuilt daily.