Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 12:16 PM EDT for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1992, 12:16 PM EDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradley County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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 021619 SVRCHA TNC011-021715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 1216 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...BRADLEY COUNTY AT 1215 PM EDT...THE CHATTANOOGA WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST BRADLEY COUNTY...ON THE HAMILTON/BRADLEY COUNTY LINE. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST...IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF CLEVELAND. RESIDENTS IN THE CLEVELAND AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITONS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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
Local storm report, Jul 2, 8:37 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA
830 AM EDT THU JUL 2 1992
REF: THUNDERSTORMS OF 7/1/92
COUNTY..... FIRS 235 PULASKI...FIRS 023 BLECKLEY...FIRS 091 DODGE
FIRS 315 WILCOX...FIRS 283 TREUTLEN
SOURCE..... COUNTY SHERIFFS AND OCMULGEE EMC
TIME....... 200 TO 300 PM EDT 7/1/92
LOCATION... THROUGHOUT THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... TREJES DOWN ON POWER LINES THROUGHOUT COUNTIESSpecial weather statement, Jul 2, 9:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
GAZ002-004-021615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 906 AM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 HEAVY RAINS HAVE FALLEN IN PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. ESTIMATED AMOUNTS OF NEAR TWO AND A HALF INCHES IN THE DAWSON AND LUMPKIN COUNTY AREA. REPORTS FROM DAWSON COUNTY SHERIFF"S OFFICE SAYS SOME TREES DOWN ON ROADS AND SOME POWER OUTAGE CAUSED MOSTLY BY HEAVY RAIN. A "TRAIN" EFFECT OF RAIN HAS BEEN FALLEN OVER THE AREA AND COULD CONTINUE FOR SOME TIME. PERSONS IN THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA AREA AND PERSONS DRIVING IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY SHOULD BE ALERT TO SOME SMALL STREAM AND ROADWAY FLOODING ESPECIALLY IN LOW PLACES.
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.