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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 1989Columbia County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1989, 6:59 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1989, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1989, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Columbia 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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, May 5, 5:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
532 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 530 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR EUFAULA ALABAMA...TO LUMPKIN GEORGIA...THEN TO
REYNOLDS...CONTINUING TO ROBERTA AND NORTHEAST. 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, 5:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA

COUNTY........ HALL

SOURCE........ CD

TIME.......... 420PM EDT

LOCATION...... HALL COUNTY

TYPE STORM.... REPORTED BY HALL COUNTY EOC

HAIL..........

DAMAGE........

INJURIES......9 PERSONS 2 SERIOUS....ALL WERE IN AUTOS..

Special weather statement, May 5, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
552 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA.

THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BUTTS...PIKE...LAMAR...AND UPSON
COUNTIES. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WILL CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS AND
OTHER PARTS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS
HAS ENDED.

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHEAST AND
EAST CE"NTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING.

Special weather statement, May 5, 6:04 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
65PM EDT FRI MAY 5, 1989

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183:

Special weather statement, May 5, 6:16 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
6PM EDT FRI MAY 5, 1989

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 183:

BANKS     BARROW     CLARKE     DAWSON
ELBERT    FRANKLIN  GREENE     HABERSHAM
HALL      HART       JACKSON   OCONEE
LUMPKIN   MADISON   MORGAN     NEWTON
OGLETHORPE RABUN    STEPHENS   TALIAFERRO
UNION     WALTON    WHITE       TOWNS

ALL THE COUNTIES ABOVE ARE NOO LONGER IN A WARNING OR A WATCH.

Special weather statement, May 5, 6:52 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
650 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MACON AND SUMTER COUNTIES OF
   WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...FOR LEE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...AND
   COLQUITT...COOK...TIFT AND WORTH COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
   UNTIL 9 PM EDT...

THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
MOST OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...AND PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL
GEORGIA. COUNTIES STILL UNDER THE WATCH INCLUDE SUMTER...MACON...LEE...
WORTH...COLQUITT...COOK...AND TIFT.

AT 645 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SHOWERS AND
A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS SCATTERED FROM NEAR EUFAULA ALABAMA TO AMERICUS
TO NEAR MACON AND CONTINUING NORTHEAST. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS
WERE NOW MAINLY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ARE STILL FORECAST FOR THE CLEARED COUNTIES
...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST. CONTINUE TO LISTEN
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

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, 5:29 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, 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.