Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1989, 5:11 PM EDT for Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1989, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1989, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coweta 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 282112
SVRATL
GAC077-282145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
511 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...SOUTHERN COWETA
AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWER A THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF NEWNAN
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW} WATER CROSSINGS.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 28, 12:54 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1250 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THE PAST HOUR OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA. AT 1245 PM RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED IN EASTERN POLK COUNTY NEAR ROCKMART. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY ALSO CONTAIN HAIL ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE AIR OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA IS VERY HOT AND UNSTABLE. THEREFORE RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE WILL BRING LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY TEMhPORARILY FLOOD STREETS. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES THIS AFTERNOON.
Local storm report, Jun 28, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
232 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1989
COUNTY........ FLOYD
SOURCE........ FLOYD COUNTY 911
TIME.......... 210 PM EDT
LOCATION...... NORTH SIDE OF COUNTY
DAMAGE........ WINDS BLEW DOWN A LARGE TREE
MARBLE SIZE HAIL
TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM
WARNING....... SVR TSTM 155 PM - 230 PMSpecial weather statement, Jun 28, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 305 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 300 PM RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED WEST OF THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN FLOYD AND POLK COUNTIES BETWEEN ROME AND CEDARTOWN. THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS WILL BRING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE ATLANTA AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR. THEY WILL LIKELY BRING LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD TEMPORARILY FLOOD STREETS AND CREEKS. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:03 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
505 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1989
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA...
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SHARP CLOUD TO
GROUND CONTINUE OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 500 PM
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST THUNDRESTORMS NEAR COVINGTON
IN NEWTON COUNTY...NEAR JACKSON IN BUTTS COUNTY AND NEAR NEWNAN IN
COWETA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH.
NEARLY 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES WAS REPORTED IN NORTH
ATLANTA WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTROMS.
THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...SHARP
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAILx AND SOME LOCAL FLOODING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR
FURHTER UPDATES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.