Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1989, 9:38 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1989, 9:38 PM EDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1989, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rutherford County, NC
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 518 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAVL 070205 COR
TORAVL
NCC161-070245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION%%
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
1004 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD
AT AT 932 PM EDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NORTH OF SPARTANBURG IN
NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES
AN HOUR AND MOVING INTO SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO, THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT.
GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT
IS AVAILABLE, SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
GRC
...CORRECTION FOR TIME...What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 6, 6:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 600 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 6 OCLOCK THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA FOOTHILLS...EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY...ACROSS PICKENS COUNTY...INTO EAST GEORGIA NEAR HARTWELL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS NEAR HARTWELL GEORGIA WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS LAKE HARTWELL AND INTO ANDERSON COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 9:00 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 855 PM EDT TUE JUN 6 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS... AT 855 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG THE FOOTHILLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA...FROM NEAR LANDRUM TO GREENVILE TO JUST SOUTH OF ANDERSON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING BERIF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE GREENVILLE AIRPORT REZPORTED THUNDER WITH 14 MPH WIND AT 849 PM. MUSGROVE
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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.