Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 9:09 PM CDT for Bledsoe County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bledsoe County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 460 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHA 190208 SVRCHA TNC007-190245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 1009 PM EDT (909 PM CDT) THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT (945 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...BLEDSOE COUNTY AT 1005PM EDT/905PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN BLEDSOE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EASTNORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 18, 8:42 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
GAZ010-017-190345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 941 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTH GEORGIA AND INCLUDES THE NORTHEAST COUNTIES OF RABUN AND HABERSHAM. THIS TORNADO WATCH IS VALID FROM 10 PM EDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING UNTIL 4 AM EDT FRIDAY MORNING.
Local storm report, May 18, 8:51 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY 940 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 COUNTY..... FANNIN SOURCE..... 911 TIME....... 940 PM LOCATION... MOBILE STORM TYPE. THUNDERSTORM DIME SIZE HAIL DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED COUNTY..... WHITEFIELD SOURCE..... CIVILIAN TIME....... 907 PM LOCATION... CRANDALL STORM TYPE. THUNDERSTORM DIME SIZE HAIL DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 25 min |
| May 18, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe, Rhea | 49 min |
| May 18, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn, Meigs | 38 min |
| May 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley | 31 min |
| May 18, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 26 min |
| May 18, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Van Buren | 29 min |
| May 18, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 32 min |
| May 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 50 min |
| May 18, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | McMinn | 29 min |
| May 18, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 36 min |
| May 18, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley, McMinn, Meigs | 32 min |
| May 18, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 33 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.