Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT for Macon County, Tennessee. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1994, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1994, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 26, 4:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 420 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 11 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR CHEATHAM...DAVIDSON SUMNER AND WILSON COUNTIES IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 515 PM CDT... AT 415 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND CITY TO HENDERSONVILLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED THAT INCLUDES THE NASHVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA UNTIL 515 PM CDT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR TRENTON NORTH OF JACKSON. SCATTERED THUNDRSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM FRANKLIN TENNESSEE SOUTWHEST TO HOHENWALD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM SHELBYVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE ENVIRONMENT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE WEATHER REAL POSSIBILITY. 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. MAURY MOORE PERRY WAYNE TNC027-041-051-061-087-141-159-177-270400- ...PLATEAU... CLAY DEKALB FRANKLIN GRUNDY JACKSON PUTNAM SMITH WARREN TNC115-270400- ...SOUTHERN EAST... MARION WWUS32KMEM ."WWUS32 KMEM 262100
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-262225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 420 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 11 PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR CHEATHAM...DAVIDSON SUMNER AND WILSON COUNTIES IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE UNTIL 515 PM CDT... AT 415 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF ASHLAND CITY TO HENDERSONVILLE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED THAT INCLUDES THE NASHVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA UNTIL 515 PM CDT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN WEST TENNESSEE NEAR TRENTON NORTH OF JACKSON. SCATTERED THUNDRSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED FROM FRANKLIN TENNESSEE SOUTWHEST TO HOHENWALD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING FROM SHELBYVILLE TO JUST SOUTH OF SMITHVILLE TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE ENVIRONMENT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND SEVERE WEATHER REAL POSSIBILITY. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 65 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.