Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Georgia, February 1998
4 tornado watches in February 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 February 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- February 16, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Early County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Brantley County2
- Brooks County2
- Charlton County2
- Clinch County2
- Echols County2
- Lanier County2
- Lowndes County2
- Pierce County2
- Ware County2
- Wayne County2
- Carroll County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Clayton County1
- Coweta County1
- Fayette County1
- Harris County1
- Heard County1
- Henry County1
- Marion County1
- Meriwether County1
- Muscogee County1
- Pike County1
- Quitman County1
- Randolph County1
- Spalding County1
- Stewart County1
- Talbot County1
- Troup County1
- Baker County1
- Berrien County1
- Calhoun County1
- Coffee County1
- Colquitt County1
- Cook County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
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.