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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 1995Hamilton County, Tennessee

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 11:24 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Tennessee. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 11:24 PM EDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Hamilton County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCHA 190323
SVRCHA
TNC065-190400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
1124 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...HAMILTON COUNTY
 
AT 1120 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AT MORRISTOWN INDICATED A SHORT LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY...LOCATED
FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF CHATTANOOGA NORTHWARD TO AROUND THE RHEA AND
MEIGS COUNTY LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE
EASTNORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE W<ARNED 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, 9:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 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, 9:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 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

Local storm report, May 18, 11:00 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY
1055 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

COUNTY.....  FANNIN
SOURCE.....  MC CAYSVILLE PD
TIME.......  945 PM
LOCATION...  MC CAYSVILLE
STORM TYPE.  THUND>ERSTORM  DIME SIZE HAIL
DAMAGE.....  NONE REPORTED

COUNTY.....  MURRAY
SOURCE.....  CIVIL DEFENSE
TIME.......  915 PM
LOCATION...  CRANDALL...NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY
STORM TYPE.  THUNDERSTORM  DIME SIZE HAIL
DAMAGE.....  NONE REPORTED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton	25 min
May 18, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bledsoe, Rhea	49 min
May 18, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	McMinn, Meigs	38 min
May 18, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bradley	31 min
May 18, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie	26 min
May 18, 9:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Van Buren	29 min
May 18, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea	32 min
May 18, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bledsoe	36 min
May 18, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	McMinn, Meigs, Rhea	50 min
May 18, 10:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	McMinn	29 min
May 18, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bradley, McMinn, Meigs	32 min
May 18, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.