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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 9, 1989Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1989-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1989-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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

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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.