Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 2:50 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1992, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1992, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Rhea County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 051957 COR SVRCHA TNC007-143-052030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 350 PM EDT (250 PM CDT) SUN JUL 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT (330 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...BLEDSOE COUNTY...RHEA COUNTY AT 245 PM CDT/345 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF BLEDSOE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE MOVING EASTWARD AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO RHEA COUNTY SHORTLY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 5, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-032030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 245 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 550 IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 7PM EDT... AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD MOVED INTO THE STATE...HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPREADING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN ALABAMA AND CENTRAL TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORIGA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHT?NING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFETY SHOULD THREATING WEATHER APPEAR OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Meigs | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn, Polk | 46 min |
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.