Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 8, 1999, 5:37 PM CST for Holmes County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 1999, 5:37 PM CST (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1999, 6:25 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Holmes County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KJAN 082339 RRA TORJAN MSC051-090025- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 537 PM CST FRI JAN 8 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HOLMES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 625 PM CST * AT 537 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 21 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON OR 11 MILES WEST OF TCHULA... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE... TCHULA AT 555 PM CST CRUGER AT 600 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 67
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jan 8, 2:40 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 090400- AREA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 240 PM CST FRI JAN 8 1999 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI TILL 800 PM TONIGHT. THIS TORNADO WATCH AREA MAY BE EXTENDED FARTHER TO THE EAST IN MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MAINLY WEST AND NORTH MISSISSIPPI TODAY WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE AND MOVE FARTHER EASTWARD TONIGHT. A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE ARKLATEX REGION TODAY AND WILL WOVE INTO TENNESSEE BY LATE THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ORGANIZE ALONG THE TRAILING STRONG COLD FRONT THAT IS FORECAST TO SWEEP EASTWARD DURING THE NIGHT BRINGING THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THROUGH MOST OF THE STATE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT/CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL WILL BE NECESSARY IN COUNTIES AND PARISHES COVERED BY THE CURRENT TORNADO WATCH AND MAY BECOME NECESSARY IN ADDITIONAL COUTIES IN MISSISSIPPI LATER TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 32 min |
| Jan 8, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 37 min |
| Jan 8, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 32 min |
| Jan 8, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 36 min |
| Jan 8, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 34 min |
| Jan 8, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 36 min |
| Jan 8, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.