Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1994, 4:48 PM EDT for Bradley County, Tennessee. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1994, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1994, 5:30 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, 8.8 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCHA 152048 RRA SVRCHA TNC011-152130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 448 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...BRADLEY COUNTY AT 445 PM EDT...THE CHATTANOOGA WEATHER RADAR INDACATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BRADLEY COUNTY NEAR CLEVELAND. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. 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 15, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-152040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 330 PM EDT THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA HOWEVER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA IN AN HOUR OR TWO. IF YOU AREA IN DAWSON...LUMPKIN...AND HALL COUNTIES BE PREPARED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF CANTON ...10 MILES WEST OF JASPER...AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF CARTERSVILLE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE... NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF WAYNESBORO AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVANIA GEORGIA.
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
GAZAL048-152050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 342 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 245 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A FEW SCATTERED AREA'S OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED NEAR MIDWAY AND HURTSBORO ALABAMA. OTHERS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF DOTHAN ALABAMA. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-152040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 330 PM EDT THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA HOWEVER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA IN AN HOUR OR TWO. IF YOU AREA IN DAWSON...LUMPKIN...AND HALL COUNTIES BE PREPARED AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF CANTON ...10 MILES WEST OF JASPER...AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF CARTERSVILLE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE HAIL...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE... NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF WAYNESBORO AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVANIA GEORGIA.
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour before
GAZAL048-152050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 342 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 245 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A FEW SCATTERED AREA'S OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED NEAR MIDWAY AND HURTSBORO ALABAMA. OTHERS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF DOTHAN ALABAMA. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY.
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:21 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
421 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CLAY...EARLY...QUITMAN AND
RANDOLPH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT...
AT 415 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND NORTHERN
FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN GADSDEN AND JACKSON
COUNTIES OF NORTHERN FLORIDA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH AND WILL AFFECT ONLY THE SOUTHERNMOST COUNTIES OF GEORGIA OVER THE
NEXT TWO HOURS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THROUGH THIS EVENING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR
THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL
RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 63 min |
| May 15, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 62 min |
| May 15, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.