Alert archive / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in the United States, September 1998
20 tornado watches in September 1998. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by state
Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 20
- Busiest day
- September 3, 19983 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
By state
Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.
- Missouri59
- Georgia55
- Texas53
- Florida52
- Alabama43
- Illinois43
- Arkansas42
- Kentucky40
- Oklahoma39
- Kansas39
- Mississippi38
- North Carolina38
- Tennessee36
- Nebraska32
- Iowa31
- South Carolina28
- Indiana26
- Minnesota25
- Louisiana24
- Wisconsin22
- South Dakota20
- Virginia19
- Ohio16
- Pennsylvania10
- West Virginia9
- Michigan9
- Colorado9
- New York8
- North Dakota8
- Maryland7
- New Mexico6
- Connecticut5
- New Jersey5
- Wyoming4
- Montana4
- Massachusetts3
- Vermont3
- Rhode Island2
- Delaware2
- New Hampshire2
1 more states
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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. Rebuilt daily.