Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 9:46 AM EDT for McMinn County, Polk County, Tennessee. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 9:46 AM EDT (13:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McMinn County, TN, Polk County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHA 141345 SVRCHA TNC107-139-141430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 946 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...SOUTHERN MCMINN COUNTY...NORTHERN POLK COUNTY AT 945 AM EDT...THE CHATTANOOGA WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN MCMINN AND NORTHERN POLK COUNTIES. DIME SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHERN MCMINN COUNTY WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, May 14, 5:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-141600- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 600 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED OVER GEORGIA TODAY HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS TENNESSEE TODAY. A LARGE PORTION OF TENNESSEE IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER STOPPING JUST SHORT OF THE GEORGIA BORDER. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA FROM MID MORNING ON. ELSEWHERE...ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPEC&TED. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS OVER NORTH GEORGIA. BDL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe | 59 min |
| May 14, 8:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe, Meigs, Rhea | 57 min |
| May 14, 8:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Rhea | 51 min |
| May 14, 9:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 51 min |
| May 14, 10:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 57 min |
| May 14, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.