Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1989, 5:29 PM EDT for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KAGS 052131
SVRAGS
GAC141-052215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
529 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...HANCOCK
AT 525 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO HANCOCK COUNTY
WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, May 5, 4:48 PM EDT, 41 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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 445 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR A PART OF NORTHWEST AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA.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, 39 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, 30 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, 28 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
]Local storm report, May 5, 5:18 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
COUNTY........ STEPHENS
SOURCE........ PUBLIC
TIME.......... 5PM EDT
LOCATION...... WEST PART OF COUNTY
TYPE STORM.... TORNADO
HAIL..........MARBLE SIZE
DAMAGE........
INJURIES......
WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO WATCH
]Local storm report, May 5, 5:18 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 518 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 BUTTS COUNTY... REPORT FROM SHERIFF DEPARTMENT... TIME...4:15-4:30 PM. BUTTS COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED 1/4 INCH HAIL AT THE JAIL AND GOLFBALL-SIZED HAIL WEST OF JACKSON. UPSON COUNTY... REPORT FROM SHERIFF DEPARTMENT... TIME...4:15-4:30 PM. TREES DOWN SOUTH OF THOMASTON AND OTHER PARTS OF COUNTY. FULTON COUNTY... REPORT FROM ATLANTA-FULTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT... TIME... ABOUT 3:45 PM SCATTERED POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF ATLANTA AND FULTON COUNTY. COUPLE OF FIRES STARTED BY THE POWERLINES.
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, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stephens | 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, 5:54 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 |
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.