Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1989, 7:43 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, GA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Laurens, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
000
TTAA00 KMCN 052344
SVRMCN
GAC175-060030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
743 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
...LAURENS
AT 735 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
WEST OF DUBLIN MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH
THE DUBLIN AREA.
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, 5:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 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 53 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 50 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, 1 hour 39 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, 1 hour 27 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, 51 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, 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, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Burke | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.