The tornado began in northwest Hall county and moved into southern White county. Total distance covered was about 13 miles.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FFC wrote it up.
The tornado began in northwest Hall county and moved into southern White county. Total distance covered was about 13 miles. Aerial and ground surveys by NWS employees showed extensive damage along the path. There was significant damage to Lanier Elementary School and North Hall High School. Houses, trailers, businesses, and agricultural interests (namely the poultry industry) were demolished or damaged. Large areas of forest were flattened. A tractor-trailer truck was thrown 100 feet from the road into a school, killing the driver. All of the other 11 persons killed were in mobile homes. The damage path varied from 50 to 200 yards, but averaged around 100 yards wide.
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:15 UTC.
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 74 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 50 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 1 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 6 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 12 | Female | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 30 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 32 | Female | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 35 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 51 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, Hall | 1998-03-20 | 52 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, White | 1998-03-20 | 4 | Female | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
| Tornado, White | 1998-03-30 | 31 | Male | Mobile/Trailer Home | Direct |
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