Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1989, 7:30 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1989, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1989, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Emanuel County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Washington 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 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 KAGS 132331
SVRAGS
GAC107-163-167-303-140030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
730 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...EMANUEL...SOUTHERN JEFFERSON...JOHNSON
...SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON
WEATHER RADAR IS DETECTING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE EXTREME
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO JEFFERSON...JOHNSON...AND EMANUEL
COUNTIES OF GEORGIA WITHIN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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, Jul 13, 4:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 438 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1989 AT 435 PM EDT A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA IN PUTNAM...GREENE AND TALIEFERRO COUNTIES...COVERING MUCH OF LAKE OCONEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 18 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES...ESPECIALLY BOATERS ON LAKE OCONEE...SHOULD USE GREAT CAUTION FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS UNTIL THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING OVER MOST OF GEORGIA...EAST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 18 MILES AN H=OUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 455 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1989 AT 450 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT MOST OF GEORGIA. IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING ACROSS JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PEACH COUNTY NEAR FORT VALLEY ...NEAR PERRY IN HOUSTON COUNTY...AND NEAR HAWKINSVILLE IN PULASKI COUNTY. THEIR MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 18 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPE AND MOVE EAST THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING..AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THESE THUNDERSTRORMS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS...OR WARNINGS IF NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 530 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1989 AT 527 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE IN MORGAN...GREENE...SOUTHERN OGLETHORPE AND WESTERN WILKES COUNTIES OF GEORGIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES OF GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THOUGH THEIR AREA. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD REALLY BE CONCERNED WITH THESE THUNDERST|ORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER MOST OF GEORGIA AND SURROUNDING STATES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 18 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:40 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 640 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1989 AT 635 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF FORSYTH IN MONROE COUNTY TO GRAY IN JONES COUNTY TO GORDON IN WILKINSON COUNTY TO SANDERSVILLE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAD STRONG WIND GUSTS NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. THEIR MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN FORT VALLEY IN PEACH COUNTY TO PERRRY IN HOUSTON COUNTY TO JEFFERSONVIULLE IN TWIGGS COUNTY. THESE WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS...OR WARNINGS IF NECESSARY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe 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.