Tornado in Georgia, September 3, 1998

Name: Tornado in Georgia, September 3, 1998
Start: 1998-09-03T10:23
End: 1998-09-03T10:38
Location: Georgia

September 3, 1998 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 7
Property damage: $435,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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 radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Screven

When: September 3, 10:23 AM EST to 10:38 AM EST
Where: Screven County, Sylvania to 1 mi NNE of Sylvania
Rating: F2
Path length: 8 mi
Path width: 350 yd
Injuries: 7 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $435,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 32.750, -81.650

Numerous trees snapped off or uprooted. The most extensive damage was approximately 3 miles north of Sylvania. In this area, there were 5 mobile homes destroyed, 1 business destroyed, 15 mobile homes with major damage and 5 mobile homes with minor damage.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Georgia in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Georgia, 1998 Warnings in Georgia, September 1998

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5664049.