Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 4:07 PM EDT for McMinn County, Tennessee. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMinn County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 272006 SVRCHA TNC107-272045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 407 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...EASTERN MCMINN COUNTY AT 405PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AT MORRISTOWN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED BETWEEN ENGLEWOOD AND ETOWAH IN EASTERN MCMINN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. 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 FLOOD 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 49 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
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:46 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-272030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 345 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 AT 335 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ELBERT COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ELBERTON IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR...MOVING THE STORM OVER SOUTHERN HART COUNTY SHORTLY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SEEK SHELTER IF NEAR THIS STORM. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MANY WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ...WERE INDCIATED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...SOUTHEASdT TENNESSEE...AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF WASHINGTON IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND BETWEEN ROSWELL AND LAWRENCEVILLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Marion, Sequatchie | 45 min |
| May 27, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Marion | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tennessee, 1995Every 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.