Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 6:50 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1989, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jenkins County, GA, 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 032249
SVRAGS
GAC165-251-032345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
650 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...EASTERN JENKINS...SCREVEN
WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN JENKINS
COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST TO 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS
SCREVEN COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RADAR ALSO INICATED HAIL IN THIS
STORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...A9ND 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, Jun 3, 1:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 115 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 AT 110 AM RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BUTTS COUNTY NORTH OF JACKSON EASTWARD ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH NEWTON COUNTY INTO JASPER COUNTY NORTH OF MONTICELLO. THE THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF JACKSON LIKELY CONTAINS HAIL ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:20 PM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 115 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 AT 110 PM RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BUTTS COUNTY NORTH OF JACKSON EASTWARD ACROSS EXTREME SOUTH NEWTON COUNTY INTO JASPER COUNTY NORTH OF MONTICELLO. THE THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF JACKSON LIKELY CONTAINS HAIL ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA. ...CHANGED TIME OF RADAR FROM AM TO PM...
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 125 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BEWTEEN COVINGTON AND MILLEDGEVILLE. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING NEWTON...JASPER...WALTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES OF NORTH GEORGIA FOR THE NEXT HOUR. ELSEWHERE...PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN WERE INDICATED OVER EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 225 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM THE ATHENS AREA SOUTHWARD AB/OUT 50 MILES. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 25 MPH ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 325 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1989 A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...40 MILES WIDE...WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM THE ATHENS AREA TO NEAR THOMSON. OVER A HALF INCH OF RAIN WITH WIND GUSTS TO 43 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE ATHENS WEATHER OFFICE AS THESE STORMS MOVED ACROSS THE AIRPORT. THE STRONGEST STORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LlIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST 25 MPH.
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.