Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989

Tornado Warning 7, NWS Columbia, SC

May 5, 1989Chesterfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1989, 4:45 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1989, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1989, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Chesterfield County, SC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 5, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Chesterfield, SC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 052045
TORCAE
SCC025-052145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
445 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
          ...CHESTERFIELD
 
AT 440 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ON CHESTERFIELD/KERSHAW
COUNTY LINE MOVING NORTHEAST 45 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THE TOWNS
OF CHESTERFIELD AND PAGELAND SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY
OF A TORNADO DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
 
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 AVAzILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	60 min
May 5, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	57 min
May 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	66 min
May 5, 7:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Fairfield	55 min
May 5, 7:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Richland	67 min
May 5, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chester, York	57 min
May 5, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lancaster	59 min
May 5, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Orangeburg	62 min
May 5, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	62 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.