Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1994, 2:36 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Tennessee. It was in force for 39 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, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 271940 TORBNA TNC099-272015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 236 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 235 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND IN SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY BY A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER. POWER WAS REPORTED OUT IN AN AREA SOUTH OF LORETTO. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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. &
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, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 69 min |
| Apr 27, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford | 33 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 |
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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.