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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chattooga County8
- Floyd County8
- Polk County8
- Columbia County8
- Lincoln County8
- McDuffie County8
- Warren County8
- Dade County7
- Walker County7
- Whitfield County7
- Bartow County7
- Gordon County7
- Butts County7
- Clarke County7
- Clayton County7
- DeKalb County7
- Fulton County7
- Glascock County7
- Greene County7
- Hancock County7
- Henry County7
- Jasper County7
- Morgan County7
- Newton County7
- Oconee County7
- Oglethorpe County7
- Putnam County7
- Richmond County7
- Rockdale County7
- Spalding County7
- Taliaferro County7
- Walton County7
- Wilkes County7
- Catoosa County6
- Haralson County6
- Murray County6
- Banks County6
- Barrow County6
- Burke County6
- Carroll County6
119 more counties
- Cherokee County6
- Cobb County6
- Dawson County6
- Douglas County6
- Elbert County6
- Fayette County6
- Forsyth County6
- Franklin County6
- Gwinnett County6
- Habersham County6
- Hall County6
- Hart County6
- Houston County6
- Jackson County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lumpkin County6
- Madison County6
- Paulding County6
- Pickens County6
- Screven County6
- Stephens County6
- Baldwin County5
- Bibb County5
- Bulloch County5
- Candler County5
- Coweta County5
- Crawford County5
- Dodge County5
- Effingham County5
- Emanuel County5
- Jenkins County5
- Johnson County5
- Jones County5
- Lamar County5
- Laurens County5
- Macon County5
- Monroe County5
- Muscogee County5
- Peach County5
- Pike County5
- Talbot County5
- Taylor County5
- Treutlen County5
- Twiggs County5
- Upson County5
- Washington County5
- Wilkinson County5
- Fannin County5
- Gilmer County5
- Union County5
- White County5
- Dooly County4
- Evans County4
- Harris County4
- Heard County4
- Marion County4
- Meriwether County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pulaski County4
- Schley County4
- Sumter County4
- Toombs County4
- Troup County4
- Webster County4
- Wheeler County4
- Telfair County4
- Rabun County4
- Towns County4
- Bleckley County3
- Chattahoochee County3
- Stewart County3
- Tattnall County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Berrien County3
- Crisp County3
- Irwin County3
- Lanier County3
- Lee County3
- Lowndes County3
- Terrell County3
- Wilcox County3
- Baker County2
- Brooks County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Colquitt County2
- Cook County2
- Decatur County2
- Dougherty County2
- Early County2
- Grady County2
- Miller County2
- Mitchell County2
- Quitman County2
- Randolph County2
- Seminole County2
- Thomas County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Worth County2
- Appling County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Bryan County2
- Camden County2
- Charlton County2
- Chatham County2
- Clinch County2
- Coffee County2
- Echols County2
- Glynn County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- McIntosh County2
- Pierce County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
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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.