The Nation - News from May 9, 1989
Temperatures dropped to record lows as far south as Florida following a weekend of storms that killed 23 people. Temperatures as low as the 20s in South Carolina prompted worry about crops. “We’ve never had frost in May before,” said Johnny Nobles of the Soil Conservation Service in Bamberg. South Carolina Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. declared a state of emergency in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties, hard-hit by tornadoes. Low-temperature records were broken or tied in at least 21 cities, including 36 at Augusta, Ga.; 30 at Bristol, Tenn.; and 48 at Jacksonville, Fla. Asheville, N.C., had its lowest-ever May temperature, at 28 degrees.
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