Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Georgia, May 1998
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 8, 19984 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County6
- Morgan County6
- Banks County5
- Jackson County5
- Jasper County5
- Oconee County5
- Baldwin County5
- Bleckley County5
- Hancock County5
- Twiggs County5
- Wilkinson County5
- Dade County4
- Bibb County4
- Butts County4
- Carroll County4
- Clayton County4
- Coweta County4
- DeKalb County4
- Douglas County4
- Fayette County4
- Fulton County4
- Haralson County4
- Heard County4
- Henry County4
- Lamar County4
- Meriwether County4
- Monroe County4
- Newton County4
- Paulding County4
- Pike County4
- Rockdale County4
- Spalding County4
- Troup County4
- Walton County4
- Burke County4
- Candler County4
- Emanuel County4
- Glascock County4
- Greene County4
- Houston County4
116 more counties
- Jefferson County4
- Jenkins County4
- Johnson County4
- Laurens County4
- McDuffie County4
- Putnam County4
- Richmond County4
- Screven County4
- Taliaferro County4
- Treutlen County4
- Warren County4
- Washington County4
- Wilkes County4
- Barrow County3
- Bartow County3
- Chattooga County3
- Cherokee County3
- Cobb County3
- Dawson County3
- Floyd County3
- Forsyth County3
- Gordon County3
- Gwinnett County3
- Hall County3
- Pickens County3
- Polk County3
- Upson County3
- Bulloch County3
- Clarke County3
- Columbia County3
- Elbert County3
- Franklin County3
- Hart County3
- Madison County3
- Oglethorpe County3
- Peach County3
- Lincoln County2
- Chattahoochee County2
- Crawford County2
- Effingham County2
- Evans County2
- Harris County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Muscogee County2
- Talbot County2
- Taylor County2
- Appling County2
- Atkinson County2
- Bacon County2
- Ben Hill County2
- Berrien County2
- Chatham County2
- Coffee County2
- Crisp County2
- Irwin County2
- Jeff Davis County2
- Liberty County2
- Long County2
- McIntosh County2
- Pierce County2
- Telfair County2
- Tift County2
- Turner County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilcox County2
- Worth County2
- Dodge County2
- Dooly County2
- Pulaski County2
- Catoosa County1
- Fannin County1
- Gilmer County1
- Habersham County1
- Lumpkin County1
- Murray County1
- Towns County1
- Union County1
- Walker County1
- White County1
- Whitfield County1
- Rabun County1
- Stephens County1
- Baker County1
- Brantley County1
- Brooks County1
- Calhoun County1
- Camden County1
- Charlton County1
- Clay County1
- Clinch County1
- Colquitt County1
- Cook County1
- Decatur County1
- Dougherty County1
- Early County1
- Echols County1
- Glynn County1
- Grady County1
- Lanier County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Miller County1
- Mitchell County1
- Quitman County1
- Randolph County1
- Seminole County1
- Terrell County1
- Thomas County1
- Ware County1
- Schley County1
- Bryan County1
- Montgomery County1
- Tattnall County1
- Toombs County1
- Wheeler County1
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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.