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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 14, 1995Bledsoe County, Meigs County, Rhea County, Tennessee

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 7:03 AM CDT for Bledsoe County, Meigs County, Rhea County, Tennessee. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 7:03 AM CDT (12:03 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bledsoe County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Rhea County, TN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -332 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHA 141203
SVRCHA
TNC007-121-143-141300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN
803 AM EDT (703 AM CDT) SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EDT (800 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN BLEDSOE COUNTY...NORTHERN MEIGS COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN RHEA COUNTY
 
AT 800AM EDT/700AM CDT WEATHER RADAR AT CHATTANOOGA INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN BLEDSOE, RHEA, AND MEIGS COUNTIES. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORHTEAST AT AROUND 40 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 14, 4:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

GAZ005>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-141600-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED OVER GEORGIA TODAY HOWEVER
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE.

A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE STATE. AN
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS TENNESSEE TODAY. A LARGE
PORTION OF TENNESSEE IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER
STOPPING JUST SHORT OF THE GEORGIA BORDER. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA FROM MID MORNING
ON. ELSEWHERE...ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPEC&TED.

SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS OVER
NORTH GEORGIA.

BDL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bledsoe	59 min
May 14, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton, Rhea	51 min
May 14, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion	51 min
May 14, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	McMinn, Polk	44 min
May 14, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hamilton	57 min
May 14, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bradley	65 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.