Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 1, 1989, 8:04 PM EDT for Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 1989, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1989, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barnwell 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
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, Oct 1, 2:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 215 PM EDT SUN SEP 3 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH GEORGIA... AT 210 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH TIFT AND COLQUITT COUNTIES IN SOUTH GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AROUND 130 PM SOME WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED NEAR THE FUNSTON COMMUNITY IN COLQUITT COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...RESIDENTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 2:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO DATE IN HEADING ONLY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 215 PM EDT SUN OCT 1 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH GEORGIA... AT 210 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH TIFT AND COLQUITT COUNTIES IN SOUTH GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AROUND 130 PM SOME WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED NEAR THE FUNSTON COMMUNITY IN COLQUITT COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...RESIDENTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, Oct 1, 5:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
6 00 PM EDT SUN OCT 1 1989
COUNTY..... COLQUITT
SOURCE..... COLQUIT COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE
TIME....... 130 PM EDT...011730Z.
LOCATION... STATE HIGHWAY 37 ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MOULTRIE...NEAR
COMMUNITY OF FUNSTON GEORGIA.
TYPE....... TORNADO...FUNNEL SIGHTED BY PUBLIC.
INJURIES... TWO FATALITIES. ABOUT 20 INJURED.
DAMAGE..... TWELVE MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED. ONE CHURCH ROOF BLOWN
OFF. SEVERAL HOMES HAD LARGE TREES DOWN.
WATCHES.... NONE
WARNINGS... NONE.
MISC....... REPORT RECEIVED BY WSO COLUMBUS AT 445 PM EDT. PREVIOUS
INFORMATION...ABOUT 2 PM EDT FROM COLQUITT SHERIFF OFFICE...HAD
NO APPARENT INJURIES. PATH OF STORM AND DAMAGE COST NOT YET
KNOWN. COLUMBUS...MACON AND WAYCROSS RADARS REPORTED NO UNUSUAL
ECHOES SUGGESTING ANY SEVERE WEATHER.Special weather statement, Oct 1, 7:59 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 800 PM EDT SUN OCT 1 1989 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 755 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THIS BAND STRETCHED FROM DALTON TO CARTERSVILLE TO ATLANTA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR ACWORTH...AND ON THE EAST SIDE OF ATLANTA. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE BAND OF SHOWERS MOVES EAST AT 20 MPH. _THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 38 min |
| Oct 1, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 46 min |
| Oct 1, 9:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 48 min |
| Oct 1, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 59 min |
| Oct 1, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 59 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.