Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Marion County, Sequatchie County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hamilton County, TN, Marion County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHA 271929 SVRCHA TNC065-115-153-272015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 330 PM EDT (230 PM CDT) SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT (315 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY...EASTERN MARION COUNTY ...EASTERN SEQUATCHIE COUNTY AT 328PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE MARION/HAMILTION COUNTY LINE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHNORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN SEQUATCHIE COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO. 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 FLOOD4 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, May 27, 11:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-281000- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. CONSIDERABLE DAYTIME HEATING WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn | 38 min |
| May 27, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Marion | 43 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.