Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Oct 2, 1989, 12:13 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1989, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1989, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkeley 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 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 694 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCHS 020413 RRA
TORCHS
SCC015-020515-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1213 AM EDT MON OCT 2 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
...BERKELEY
AT 12:01 EDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER BERKELEY
COUNTY MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR.
PUBLIC AND EMS UNITS CONFIRMED A TORNADO OVER HIGHWAY 176 IN THE
VICINITY OF THE TOWN OF LEBANON.
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 FLOOR. 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, Oct 1, 8:44 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 838 PM EDT SUN OCT 01 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 8.30 PM EDT...RAIN WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS EMBEDDED IN IT COVERED MOST OF THE PIEDMONT...MIDLANDS AND NORTH COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTENDED INTO AREAS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND THESE WERE LOCATED NORTH OF BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST OF SYLVANIA GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SAM
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 9:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 933 PM EDT SUN OCT 01 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 9.30 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN GEORGIA...THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM BAMBERG SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWARDS TO SAVANNAH GEORGIA. RAIN COVERED MOST OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM& THE FOOTHILLS TO THE COAST AND EXTENDED INTO AREAS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. ALL MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SAM
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 10:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 1032 PM EDT SUN OCT 01 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 10.30 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN PROGRESS IN THE BEAUFORT/HILTON HEAD AREA...AND ALSO FROM NEAR ORANGEBURG TO JUST NORTH OF WALTERBORO. RAIN CONTINUED OVER MOST PORTIONS OF THE PIEDMONT...MIDLANDS AND COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA_ EXTENDING WELL INTO SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND COASTAL GEORGIA. ALL MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SAM
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 11:36 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 1131 PM EDT SUN OCT 01 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 11.30 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTHERN COASTAL COUNTIES FROM LAKE MARION TO EDISTO BEACH AND HUNTING ISLAND. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR THEY CAN PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...SOME LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. ELSEWHERE...RAIN CONTINUED OVER MOST OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE PIEDMNONT TO THE COAST AND EXTENDED INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. ALL MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SAM
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 11:38 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC 1138 PM EDT SUN OCT 01 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM FOR THE COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 11.30 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTHERN COASTAL COUNTIES FROM LAKE MARION TO EDISTO BEACH AND HUNTING ISLAND. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR THEY CAN PRODUCE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...SOME LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. ELSEWHERE...RAIN CONTINUED OVER MOST OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE PIEDMNONT TO THE COAST AND EXTENDED INTO NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. ALL MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. SAM
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.