Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Georgia, March 1998
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 8, 19986 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Early County5
- Clay County4
- Appling County4
- Bacon County4
- Clinch County4
- Echols County4
- Jeff Davis County4
- Ware County4
- Quitman County3
- Atkinson County3
- Baker County3
- Ben Hill County3
- Berrien County3
- Brooks County3
- Calhoun County3
- Coffee County3
- Colquitt County3
- Cook County3
- Decatur County3
- Dougherty County3
- Grady County3
- Irwin County3
- Lanier County3
- Lowndes County3
- Miller County3
- Mitchell County3
- Seminole County3
- Telfair County3
- Thomas County3
- Tift County3
- Turner County3
- Worth County3
- Brantley County3
- Bryan County3
- Camden County3
- Charlton County3
- Glynn County3
- Liberty County3
- Long County3
- McIntosh County3
37 more counties
- Pierce County3
- Wayne County3
- Lee County2
- Randolph County2
- Terrell County2
- Toombs County2
- Tattnall County2
- Chatham County2
- Bleckley County1
- Chattahoochee County1
- Crisp County1
- Dodge County1
- Dooly County1
- Emanuel County1
- Houston County1
- Johnson County1
- Laurens County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Muscogee County1
- Peach County1
- Pulaski County1
- Schley County1
- Stewart County1
- Sumter County1
- Taylor County1
- Treutlen County1
- Twiggs County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Wilcox County1
- Evans County1
- Banks County1
- Franklin County1
- Hart County1
- Stephens 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.