Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1994, 12:52 PM EDT for Monroe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTYS 151651 TORTYS TNC123-151800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 1252 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KNOXVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL TENNESSEE ...MONROE COUNTY AT 1150 AM EDT A TORNADO WAS IN EASTERN MCMINN COUNTY MOVING INTO MONROE COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF GUDGER. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE CITY OF MADISONVILLE IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 15, 9:25 AM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
TNZ082-079-098-081-080-151530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 921 AM EDT (821 AM CDT) FRI APR 15 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST TENNESSEE AND NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 300 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF EAST TENNESSEE AND NORTH ALABAMA UNTIL 300 PM CDT TODAY. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE... BLEDSOE...GRUNDY...MARION...SEQUATCHIE AND VAN BUREN. IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA...JACKSON AND DE KALB. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT THAT IS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF TENNESSEE AND SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE TORNADOES...HIGH WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE TRI STATE AREA SHOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THERE LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 9:41 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TNZ011-066-151545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 942 AM EDT (842 AM CDT) FRI APR 15 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MIDDLE EAST TENNESSEE...UNTIL 3PM EDT... THE TORNADO @WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FENTRESS...AND CUMBERLAND. REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH MEANS TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 12:44 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
TNZ015>018-042>047-VAZ001>009-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE BRISTOL TENNESSEE 1225 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 700 PM EDT... CONDITIONS ARE BECOME MORE INCLINED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE MOUNTAIN EMPIRE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS OF THIS LAST WORKDAY OF THE WEEK. REPORTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED OF TORNADOES THAT HAD TOUCHDOWNED IN MIDDLE AND SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE DURING THE PAST HOUR. AT 1225 PM TRI CITIES WEATHER RADAR INDICATED PRECIPITATION MOVING INTO NORTHEAST TENNESSEE FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE ACROSS THE GREATER TRI CITES AREA DURING THE HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS MEANT TO ALERT YOU TO THE POSSIBLITY OF A TORNADO IN THE WATCH AREA. A TORNADO WATCH WOULD INCLUDE THE POSSIBILTY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE CURTAILED AND YARD FURNITURE SHOULD BE SECURED.
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.