Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 1994, 1:51 PM CST for Wayne County, Tennessee. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 1994, 1:51 PM CST (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 1994, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 051953 RRA SVRBNA TNC181-052100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 151 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...WAYNE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR AT 150 PM CST..5 MILES EAST OF SAVANNAH TENNESSEE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE COMMUNITIES OF CLIFTON AND WAYNESBORO IN WAYNE COUNTY TENNESSEE. 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 ROADS 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, Nov 5, 11:28 AM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-051830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1128 AM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ARE MOVING INTO WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 1115 AM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME STRONG.. COVERED WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WITH THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDING FROM TUPELO IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TO 20 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO AND ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER INTO SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOPKINSVILLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LEXINGTON ACROSS CAMDEN IN WEST TENNESSEE TO MURRAY IN SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY. RESIDENTS OF WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE THE FIRST TO FEEL THE AFFECTS OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND IF A STORM APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER MAY BE EXPECTED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST. THE ENVIRORNMENT ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE IS NOT AS UNSTABLE AS IT IS TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA..HOWEVER IT IS BEING MONITORED CLOSELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 11:30 AM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-051830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1128 AM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ARE MOVING INTO WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... AT 1115 AM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME STRONG.. COVERED WEST TENNESSEE AND NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WITH THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDING FROM TUPELO IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TO 20 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO AND ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER INTO SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOPKINSVILLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LEXINGTON ACROSS CAMDEN IN WEST TENNESSEE TO MURRAY IN SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY. RESIDENTS OF WESTERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE THE FIRST TO FEEL THE AFFECTS OF THE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND IF A STORM APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER MAY BE EXPECTED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 3 PM CST. THE ENVIRORNMENT ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE IS NOT AS UNSTABLE AS IT IS TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA..HOWEVER IT IS BEING MONITORED CLOSELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 12:44 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-051945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1244 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ADVANCING EASTWARD... AT 1230 PM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ADVANCING EASTWARD ACROSS THE MID STATE AREA WITH THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDING FROM NASHVILLE..COLUMBIA TO 10 MILES WEST OF PULASKI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INTO WEST TENNESSEE AND THROUGH WESTERN KENTUCKY WHERE THE LEADING EDGE REACHED FROM OWENSBORO TO RUSSELVILLE. GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH LIGHTNING. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 12:46 PM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-051945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 1244 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ADVANCING EASTWARD... AT 1230 PM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ADVANCING EASTWARD ACROSS THE MID STATE AREA WITH THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDING FROM NASHVILLE..COLUMBIA TO 10 MILES WEST OF PULASKI. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INTO WEST TENNESSEE AND THROUGH WESTERN KENTUCKY WHERE THE LEADING EDGE REACHED FROM OWENSBORO TO RUSSELVILLE. GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH LIGHJTNING. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 1:33 PM CST, 18 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-052035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 133 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE... AT 130 PM CST A NARROW LINE OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM BETHPAGE IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE SOUTH ACROSS MT JULIET..SMYRNA TO PULASKI. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN WESTERN KENTUCKY FROM OWENSBORO SOUTH TO HOPKINSVILLE AND EAST TO BOWLING GREEN. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN WEST TENNESSEE GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM UNION CITY TO BOLIVAR TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 1:35 PM CST, 16 minutes before
TNZ005>010-023>033-056>065-075>078-093>097-052035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 133 PM CST SAT NOV 5 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE... AT 130 PM CST A NARROW LINE OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM BETHPAGE IN NORTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE SOUTH ACROSS MT JULIET..SMYRNA TO PULASKI. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN WESTERN KENTUCKY FROM OWENSBORO SOUTH TO HOPKINSVILLE AND EAST TO BOWLING GREEN. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN WEST TENNESSEE GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM UNION CITY TO BOLIVAR TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
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.