Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1989, 8:16 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1282 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAGS 060018
SVRAGS
GAC251-060100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
816 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...SCREVEN
AT 815 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR SYLVANIA GEORGIA MOVING EAST AT 35 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.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, 5:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 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, 2 hours 12 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, 2 hours 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, 1 hour 24 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.
Special weather statement, May 5, 8:08 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 650 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR MACON AND SUMTER COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...AND COLQUITT...COOK...TIFT AND WORTH COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 800 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 10 MILES WIDE...EXTENDING FROM AMERICUS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO CUTHBERT AND FORT GAINES...AND CONTINUING WEST TO NEAR ENTERPRISE ALABAMA. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR CUTHBERT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA CAN EXPECT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA FROM AMERICUS AND LESLIE WEST TO DAWSON...CUTHBERT AND FORT GAINES. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, May 5, 8:11 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 808 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR MACON AND SUMTER COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...AND COLQUITT...COOK...TIFT AND WORTH COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 800 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 10 MILES WIDE...EXTENDING FROM AMERICUS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO CUTHBERT AND FORT GAINES...AND CONTINUING WEST TO NEAR ENTERPRISE ALABAMA. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR CUTHBERT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA CAN EXPECT A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA FROM AMERICUS AND LESLIE WEST TO DAWSON...CUTHBERT AND FORT GAINES. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 49 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.