Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1998

Tornado Watches in Georgia, April 1998

19 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest day
April 9, 19985 tornado 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
Apr 3, 8:00 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCCatoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Haralson, Polk and 2 more6 hr
Apr 3, 2:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more6 hr
Apr 3, 4:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 93 more6 hr
Apr 3, 10:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch and 57 more6 hr
Apr 8, 11:30 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 35 more6 hr
Apr 8, 2:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 26 more6 hr
Apr 8, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCChattooga6 hr
Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 84 more7 hr
Apr 8, 8:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCChattooga, Dade, Walker7 hr
Apr 9, 1:15 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 78 more6 hr
Apr 9, 2:30 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 60 more5 hr
Apr 9, 4:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCScreven6 hr
Apr 9, 7:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 30 more6 hr
Apr 16, 10:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 30 more6 hr
Apr 17, 1:30 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 24 more6 hr
Apr 17, 8:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts and 64 more6 hr
Apr 18, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCDade5 hr
Apr 18, 8:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Burke, Butts, Carroll and 58 more6 hr
Apr 19, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Warren6 hr

By county

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

119 more counties

Nearby

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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.