Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1989, 5:54 PM EST for Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1989, 5:54 PM EST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1989, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KATL 292254
SVRATL
GAC115-233-292345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
554 PM EST WED MAR 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...FLOYD...POLK
A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EASTWARD FROM ALABAMA
ACROSS THE GEORGIA LINE AT 35 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. POWER LINES WERE DOWNED AROUND
5 PM IN THE ANNISTON ALABAMA AREA AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Mar 29, 5:31 PM EST, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 530 PM WED MAR 29 1989 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST ALABAMA AT 530 PM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS WILL BRING THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE WEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF CHATTOOGA...FLOYD... POLK...HARALSON...AND CARROLL BETWEEN 6 PM AND 7 PM. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS PRODUCED STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AS IT MOVED THROUGH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE IN ROME...CEDARTOWN... TALLAPOOSA...CARROLLTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. RESIDENTS OF THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK PROTECTIVE SHELTER IF NECESSARY.
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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.