Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1989, 5:11 PM EDT for Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stephens 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 67 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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
Local storm report, May 5, 4:22 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 420 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 TROUP COUNTY... REPORT FROM SHERIFF DEPARTMENT... TIME...2:50-3:00 PM. AT THE ALABAMA-GEORGIA STATE LINE NEAR STATELINE ROAD SCATTERED POWER LINES AND TREES WERE DOWN. THE LOCATION WAS ABOUT 12 MILES FROM DOWNTOWN LAGRANGE. MERIWETHER COUNTY... REPORTS FROM SHERIFF AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS... TIME...3:40-400 PM. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. SPALDING COUNTY... TIME...3:45-4:00 PM. SCATTERED POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN NEAR GRIFFIN. DEKALB COUNTY... REPORTS FROM DEKALB COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CITIZEN. TIME...4:00-4:10 PM. CITIZEN REPORTED TORNADO WITH ABOUT 10 TREES DOWN ON PROPERTY. POLICE REPORTED THAT WIDESPREAD TREES AND POWERLINES WERE DOWN ACROSS THE COUNTY.
Local storm report, May 5, 4:36 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ HALL SOURCE........ CD TIME.......... 420PM EDT LOCATION...... HALL COUNTY TYPE STORM.... PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO HAIL.......... DAMAGE........ INJURIES...... WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCH ]
Special weather statement, May 5, 4:48 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 445 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR A PART OF NORTHWEST AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. MURRAY... GORDON...FLOYD...BARTOW...POLK...HARALSON...PAULDING...CARROLL...DOUGLAS ...HEARD...COWESTA...TROUP...MERIWETHER...FAYETTE...FULTON...CLAYTON... DEKALB...COBB...CHEROKEE...FANNIN...GILMER...PICKENS...DAWSON...FORSYTH ...GWINNETT...DEKALB...ROCKDALE...AND HENRY. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS HAS ENDED. HOWEVER...THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING. THE AREA REMAINING UNDER THE WATCH IS ALONG AND TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FROM BLAIRSVILLE TO GAINESVILLE TO GRIFFIN TO THOMASTON.
Special weather statement, May 5, 4:50 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 450 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AS WELL AS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...MOST OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AND PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 445 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SCATTERED LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CUSSETA...TO JUST NORTH OF JUNCTION CITY...TO THOMASTON AND BARNESVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF JUNCTION CITY AND NEAR THOMASTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES TO DEVELOP. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT MAY BECOME SEVERE. REMAIN ALERT AND STAY INFORMED BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL NEWS MEDIA. BE PREPARED TO PUT INTO OPERATION YOUR PERSONAL OR FAMILY ACTIONS PLAN IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Local storm report, May 5, 4:59 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
COUNTY........ OCONEE
SOURCE........ PUBLIC
TIME.......... 455PM EDT
LOCATION...... 6 S WATKINSVILLE GEORGIA
TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM
HAIL..........MARBLE SIZE
DAMAGE........
INJURIES......
WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCH
]Local storm report, May 5, 5:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
COUNTY........ CLARKE
SOURCE........ PUBLIC
TIME.......... 5PM EDT
LOCATION...... WINTERVILLE GEORGIA
TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM
HAIL..........MARBLE SIZE
DAMAGE........
INJURIES......
WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCH
]The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 50 min |
| May 5, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 44 min |
| May 5, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 55 min |
| May 5, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 55 min |
| May 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts | 47 min |
| May 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Morgan, Oconee | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 52 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 32 min |
| May 5, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 64 min |
| May 5, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 46 min |
| May 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 69 min |
| May 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 46 min |
| May 5, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 51 min |
| May 5, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 65 min |
| May 5, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia | 41 min |
| May 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Richmond | 31 min |
| May 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia | 31 min |
| May 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Richmond | 58 min |
| May 5, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 47 min |
| May 5, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Burke | 54 min |
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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.