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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 10, 1995Grundy County, Tennessee

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 3:44 PM CDT for Grundy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1995, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Grundy County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHA 102044
SVRCHA
TNC061-102115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
444 PM EDT (344 PM CDT) WED MAY 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT (415 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN GRUNDY COUNTY
 
AT 440PM EDT/340PM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT NASHVILLE AND MORRISTOWN
INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EAST CENTRAL COFFEE COUNTY
TENNESSE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHNORTHWEST OF MONTEAGLE. THIS
THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND
WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME NORTHWESTERN GRUNDY COUNTY ON THE PLATEAU
WITHIN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO.
 
 
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 10, 10:19 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-110600-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1120 AM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

A COLD FRONT OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI WILL MOVE CLOSER TO GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON. SUNSHINE AND AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN
ALABAMA AND GEORGIA WILL MAKE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD
BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO
POSSIBLE.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR
DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

KM

Local storm report, May 10, 12:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME OF OCCURENCE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
150 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

COUNTY...... MUSCOGEE, GEORGIA
SOURCE...... NWS OFFICE
TIME........ 630 AM EDT
LOCATION.... |COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AIRPORT
TYPE STORM.. STRONG TSTM
CONDITIONS.. PEAK WIND OF 43 MPH FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF THUNDERSTORM
             COMPLEX
INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED
DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton, Rhea	51 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.