Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 9:11 PM CDT for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 2572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 280211 SVRMEM TNC047-280245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 911 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST TENNESSEE ...NORTHEASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY AT 910 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNERSTORM OVER NORHTEAST FAYETEE COUNTY TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN SOMERVILLE AND LACONIA OF NORTHEAST FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF SOMERVILLE AND LACONIA OVER THE NEXT HALF HOUR. 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 ROA>DS 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, Apr 27, 4:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
MSZ005-006-009-017-016-003-004-014-015-023-024-030-031-272215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 412 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 157 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 400 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA. HOWEVER...NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI...ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI LATER IN THE DAY. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
MSZ005-006-009-017-016-002-003-004-013-014-015-023-024-030-031- 033-272315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 513 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 157 IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY. THIS STORM APPEARS TO BE WEAKENING...BUT MAY STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. WEAKER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD BEGUN TO FORM ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PERSISTED IN SOUTHERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH...THEREFORE AREAS THAT ARE AFFECTED BY THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING COULD PRODUCE EXTENDED PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
MSZ005-006-009-017-016-002-003-004-013-014-015-023-030-033-280015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 615 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 157 IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN ALCORN COUNTY AND WESTERN DESOTO COUNTY. THOSE TWO STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL...AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN. MORE EXTENSIVE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CURRENTLY FURTHER NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TENNESSEE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH...CREATING LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WHERE THUNDERSTORMS DO OCCUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIhBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
MSZ005-006-009-017-016-002-003-004-013-014-015-023-030-031-033- 280115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUPELO MS 706 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 157 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN TUPELO INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. THE ONLY OTHER ACTIVITY IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI WAS AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTHCENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Gibson | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 3:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Crockett, Dyer | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Gibson | 3 hr |
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.