Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1994, 5:18 PM EDT for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1994, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 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, 9.3 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCHA 192119 RRA SVRCHA TNC011-192200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 518 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...NORTHERN BRADLEY COUNTY AT 517 PM EDT...THE CHATTANOOGA WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN BRADLEY COUNTY...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF CLEVELAND. THE STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM...SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY OCCUR. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
GAZ078>080-089>093-102>104-120>127-129-142>147-ALZ048-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 357 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 355 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE NEAR AUBURN AND TUSKEGEE IN EAST ALABAMA..NEAR THOMASTON IN UPSON COUNTY AND BETWEEN AMERICUS AND MACON IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA..AND BETWEEN ARLINGTON OF EARLY COUNTY AND THE FLORIDA BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. PERSONS WHO RESIDE IN WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA AS WELL AS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MAINTAIN ATTENTION ON THE WEATHER THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
GAZ078>080-089>093-102>104-120>127-129-142>147-ALZ048-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 357 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 355 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE NEAR AUBURN AND TUSKEGEE IN EAST ALABAMA..NEAR THOMASTON IN UPSON COUNTY AND BETWEEN AMERICUS AND MACON IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA..AND BETWEEN ARLINGTON OF EARLY COUNTY AND THE FLORIDA BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. PERSONS WHO RESIDE IN WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA AS WELL AS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD MAINTAIN ATTENTION ON THE WEATHER THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTED DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 COUNTY...... PIKE SOURCE...... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TIME........ 405 PM EDT LOCATION.... MEANSVILLE TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEATHER..... WIND DAMAGE DAMAGE...... SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ZALESKI
Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:20 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 418 AM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 COUNTY...... PIKE SOURCE...... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TIME........ 405 PM EDT LOCATION.... MEANSVILLE TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEATHER..... WIND DAMAGE DAMAGE...... SEVERAL LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ZALESKI
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 4:50 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-202150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 450 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NEWTON ...WALTON...BARROW AND HABERSHAM COUNTIES... AT 445 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA MOUNTAINS IN HABERSHAM COUNTY AND IN WALTON...NEWTON AND BARROW COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME HIGHWAYS IS POSSIBLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. KEEP ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE INDICATED IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...EASTERN ALABAMA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST OF THESE SHOWERS WAS NEAR ETOWAH IN EAST TENNESSEE. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDIACTED.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:09 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
GAZ059-060-071>073-081>084-094>098-105>112-128-130-131-192310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 509 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 508 PM MACON RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAURENS COUNTY JUST WEST OF DUBLIN AND BLECKLEY COUNTY JUST EAST OF COCHRAN. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER BEN HILL COUNTY JUST EAST OF FITZGERALD AND STRETCHING SOUTH TO IRWIN COUNTY WEST OF OCILLA. MOVEMENT IS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND SOME STREET FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO REDUCED VISIBILIIES IN DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. SHALLOW...SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER CAN WASH A CAR FROM A ROADWAY. ALSO...THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE INTACT UNDER THE WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.