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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 9, 1995Hamilton County, Rhea County, Tennessee

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, TN, Rhea County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHA 100012
SVRCHA
TNC065-143-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
809 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY...RHEA COUNTY
 
AT 810PM EDT WEATHER RADAR FROM NASHVILLE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN EAST CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM
SHOULD MOVE INTO RHEA COUNTY SHORTLY.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGrundy31 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.