Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 1989, 7:29 PM EDT for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1989, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1989, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCAE 042330
TORCAE
SCC063-079-050030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
729 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
...LEXINGTON...RICHLAND
AT 725 PM EDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR SOUTH CONGREE IN LEXINGTON
COUNTY...SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST wFLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 5:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 520 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTH CAROLINA...THIS INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA UNTIL 11 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDER- STORMS FROM NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA TO CENTRAL GEROGIA. THIS LINE IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. RESIDENTS OF THE AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 7:10 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 712 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTH CAROLINA...THIS INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA UNTIL 11 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A LARGE AREA OF RAIN. THE AREA EXTENDED FROM NEAR DUBLIN GEORGIA TO NEAR CHESTER SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR EDGEFIELD AND WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 50 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A VARIETY OF DAMAGING CONDITIONS...RANGING FROM POWER OUTAGES AND BROKEN TREE LIMBS...ALSO A MOBILE HOME WAS TURNED OVER IN RICHMOND COUNTY GEORGIA NEAR BUSH FIELD. DAMAGE REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM EDGEFIELD COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA TO WESTERN BURKE COUNY GEORGIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Newberry | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chester, York | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 57 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1989Every tornado warning in 1989Tornadoes in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.