Alert archive / Tornado Warnings

Tornado Warnings in the United States, 1998

3,605 tornado warnings in 1998. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Tornado Warnings
3,605
Busiest month
June1,001 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 16, 1998151 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

6 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 16, 1998151tornado warnings
  2. May 7, 1998106tornado warnings
  3. May 31, 199897tornado warnings
  4. April 8, 199886tornado warnings
  5. April 9, 199880tornado warnings
  6. June 2, 199879tornado warnings
  7. June 14, 199879tornado warnings
  8. April 17, 199876tornado warnings
  9. June 29, 199865tornado warnings
  10. June 12, 199863tornado warnings
  11. April 3, 199859tornado warnings
  12. June 13, 199851tornado warnings
  13. October 5, 199849tornado warnings
  14. May 25, 199849tornado warnings
  15. June 3, 199848tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowThe tornado archiveThe radar archive19971999

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. Rebuilt daily.