Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1989, 1:43 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia; Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1989, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1989, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, GA, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 19, 10:16 AM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
1015 AM EDT MON JUN 19 1989
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA...
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL
GEORGIA...
AT 1008 EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE LEADING EDGE FROM CLAYTON ALABAMA EXTENDING
NORTH TO SEALE ALABAMA THEN TO COLUMBUS..MANCHESTER AND ATLANTA GEORGIA.
MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AS WELL AS SOME
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. PLEASE STAY
ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND KEEP LISTENING TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS FOR
FURTHER UPDATES.Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
1215 PM EDT MON JUN 19 1989
...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN
GREENE COUNTY...
AT 1210 PM EDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY
WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED
10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORDVILLE IN SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY
AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN GREENE AND TALIAFERRO CO>UNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THIS
THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH THEIR AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1989Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.