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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 10:31 PM EDT for McMinn County, Tennessee. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 10:31 PM EDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McMinn County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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
- 1185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 460 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 17.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHA 190231 RRA TORCHA TNC107-190300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 1031 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...MCMINN COUNTY AT 1037PM EDT MORRISTOWN WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST MCMINN MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. U\SE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 25 min |
| May 18, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe, Rhea | 49 min |
| May 18, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn, Meigs | 38 min |
| May 18, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley | 31 min |
| May 18, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 26 min |
| May 18, 9:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Van Buren | 29 min |
| May 18, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea | 32 min |
| May 18, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe | 36 min |
| May 18, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn, Meigs, Rhea | 50 min |
| May 18, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton | 36 min |
| May 18, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley, McMinn, Meigs | 32 min |
| May 18, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 33 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.