Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 1:51 PM CDT for Giles County, Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 69 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Giles County, TN, Lawrence County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Shoal Creek, TN | A small tornado briefly touched down in the southern part of Lawrence County. A few trees were blown down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 271855 SVRBNA TNC055-099-272000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 151 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...GILES COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 150 PM CDT...NASHVILLE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN LAWRENCE AND GILES COUNTIES. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY bRAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 10:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren | 56 min |
| Apr 27, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lewis | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 25 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.