Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 2:29 PM CDT for Putnam County, Tennessee. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1994, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBNA 291930 SVROHX TNC141-292030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 229 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 225 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES WEST OF COOKEVILLE TENNESSEE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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, Jun 29, 12:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-291815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1211 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1994 AT 1205 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER COLUMBIA TENNESSEE IN MAURY COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH MAURY COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-291815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1211 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1994 AT 1205 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER COLUMBIA TENNESSEE IN MAURY COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH MAURY COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 9:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 69 min |
| Jun 29, 10:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 67 min |
| Jun 29, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 25 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.