Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1989, 5:44 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1989, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1989, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Rhea County, TN
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 KCHA 122250
SVRCHA
TNC007-143-092330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
644 PM EDT (544 PM CDT) FRI JUN 9 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT (630 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
...EASTERN BLEDSOE...RHEA
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO EAST BLEDSOE COUNTY
AND THE MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD PLACE IT IN RHEA COUNTY
WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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 9, 11:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1235 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH 444 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL GA... THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR BEN HILL...IRWIN...TURNER DODGE...MONTGOMERY...WILCOX...LAURENS...WHEELER...TELFAIR AND TRUETLEN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL. WATCH NUMBER 444 EXPIRES AT 100 PM EDT. FORECAST INDICATES A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST GA THIS AFTERNOON WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE 80S.
Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
DELAYED STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
440 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1989
REF STORM ACTIVITY OF YESTERDAY...JUNE 8 1989
COUNTY...TIFT.
SOURCE...TIFT COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
TIME.....845 PM EDT
LOCATION...TOWN OF OMEGA GEORGIA...DAMAGE ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 319.
TYPE STORM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...ONE MOBILE HOME OVERTURNED WITH CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. SIX TO
EIGHT LARGE PECAN TREES UPROOTED.
INJURIES...NONE.
WATCHE)S...TORNADO WATCH 439 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. TORNADO WATCH 440
9 PM TIL 2 AM EDT.Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 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.