Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT for Grundy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grundy County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 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 142251 RRA SVRCHA TNC061-142345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 652 PM EDT (552 PM CDT) SAT MAY 14 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT (645 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY AT 650 PM EDT...550 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHATTANOOGA INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN GRUNDY COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH TRACY CITY BEFORE 7PM CDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
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, May 14, 5:49 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
GAZ129-146-147-142350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 649 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BETWEEN OMEGA AND NASHVILLE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING TIFT AND WESTERN BERRIEN COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN AREAS ALREADY AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS. 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, May 14, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 minute before
GAZ129-146-147-142350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 649 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BETWEEN OMEGA AND NASHVILLE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING TIFT AND WESTERN BERRIEN COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN AREAS ALREADY AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS. 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 LA TEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 5:52 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
GAZ129-146-147-142350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 649 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BETWEEN OMEGA AND NASHVILLE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ENTERING TIFT AND WESTERN BERRIEN COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN AREAS ALREADY AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS. 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 LA&TEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.