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Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998
55 tornado watches in 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 55
- Busiest month
- April19 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 8, 19986 tornado watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Liberty and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Grady, Seminole | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay, Clayton, Coweta, Early and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Camden and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early, Quitman | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early, Quitman | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Early, Quitman | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Franklin, Hart, Stephens | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Haralson, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 93 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch and 57 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattooga | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 84 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 1:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 78 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 60 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Screven | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 7:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts and 64 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Burke, Butts, Carroll and 58 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Warren | 6 hr |
| May 6, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 6 hr |
| May 7, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 48 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bleckley, Burke, Candler, Clarke and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts and 58 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 41 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 65 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 2:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 4 hr |
| May 10, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 45 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Rabun, Towns | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hart, Lincoln, Richmond | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 10:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 21 more | 13 hr |
| Sep 3, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Dodge and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty and 15 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Colquitt and 31 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 29, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 79 more | 10 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 30, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Glynn, Liberty, McIntosh | 7 hr |
| Nov 10, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Early County13
- Grady County13
- McIntosh County13
- Pierce County13
- Ware County13
- Wayne County13
- Bacon County13
- Morgan County13
- Baker County12
- Clay County12
- Decatur County12
- Dougherty County12
- Mitchell County12
- Thomas County12
- Worth County12
- Brantley County12
- Camden County12
- Charlton County12
- Glynn County12
- Liberty County12
- Clayton County12
- Henry County12
- Muscogee County12
- Spalding County12
- Atkinson County12
- Clinch County12
- Echols County12
- Emanuel County12
- Houston County12
- Laurens County12
- Treutlen County12
- Twiggs County12
- Banks County12
- Dade County12
- Columbia County12
- Hancock County12
- Jasper County12
- Jones County12
- McDuffie County12
- Oconee County12
119 more counties
- Richmond County12
- Screven County12
- Warren County12
- Calhoun County11
- Colquitt County11
- Miller County11
- Seminole County11
- Carroll County11
- Fayette County11
- Marion County11
- Troup County11
- Berrien County11
- Brooks County11
- Coffee County11
- Irwin County11
- Lanier County11
- Lowndes County11
- Tift County11
- Johnson County11
- Peach County11
- Telfair County11
- Hart County11
- Chattooga County11
- Floyd County11
- Polk County11
- Burke County11
- Butts County11
- Candler County11
- DeKalb County11
- Fulton County11
- Glascock County11
- Greene County11
- Jackson County11
- Jefferson County11
- Jenkins County11
- Lincoln County11
- Newton County11
- Putnam County11
- Rockdale County11
- Taliaferro County11
- Walton County11
- Wilkes County11
- Wilkinson County11
- Quitman County10
- Randolph County10
- Terrell County10
- Appling County10
- Long County10
- Chattahoochee County10
- Coweta County10
- Harris County10
- Meriwether County10
- Pike County10
- Talbot County10
- Cook County10
- Bleckley County10
- Dodge County10
- Jeff Davis County10
- Macon County10
- Taylor County10
- Franklin County10
- Haralson County10
- Bartow County10
- Gordon County10
- Baldwin County10
- Bibb County10
- Bulloch County10
- Clarke County10
- Douglas County10
- Monroe County10
- Oglethorpe County10
- Paulding County10
- Upson County10
- Washington County10
- Lee County9
- Heard County9
- Bryan County9
- Ben Hill County9
- Dooly County9
- Toombs County9
- Turner County9
- Evans County9
- Barrow County9
- Cherokee County9
- Cobb County9
- Crawford County9
- Dawson County9
- Effingham County9
- Elbert County9
- Forsyth County9
- Gwinnett County9
- Hall County9
- Lamar County9
- Madison County9
- Pickens County9
- Stewart County8
- Chatham County8
- Crisp County8
- Montgomery County8
- Pulaski County8
- Schley County8
- Webster County8
- Wheeler County8
- Wilcox County8
- Tattnall County8
- Stephens County8
- Walker County8
- Whitfield County8
- Sumter County7
- Catoosa County7
- Murray County7
- Habersham County7
- Lumpkin County7
- Fannin County6
- Gilmer County6
- Rabun County6
- Towns County6
- Union County6
- White County6
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.