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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 1989, 3:58 PM EDT for Henry County, Rockdale County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. 4 reports 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
- Apr 4, 1989, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1989, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Henry, GA | |
| Apr 4, 4:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Spalding, GA | |
| Apr 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Henry, GA | |
| Apr 4, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Rockdale, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 KATL 041958
TORATL
GAC151-247-255-042045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
358 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...HENRY...ROCKDALE...SPALDING
VERY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TONADOES ARE BERING REPORTED
ALL OVER THE ATLANTA METRO AREA.
THIS IS VERY SERIOUS SITUATION AND EVERY ONE SHOULD TAKE ALL
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTSER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Polk | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gordon | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson, Paulding | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Habersham | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | White | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Habersham, Hall, Jackson | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Stephens | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts | 41 min |
| Apr 4, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Monroe | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Madison, Oglethorpe | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Taliaferro | 68 min |
| Apr 4, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Putnam | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 62 min |
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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.