Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 8:06 PM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 1999, 8:06 PM CST (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1999, 8:55 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chicot County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 8:30 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Lake Vlg, AR | Baseball size hail did serious damage to roofs, automobiles and windows. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 220206 RRA TORJAN ARC017-220255- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 806 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 855 PM CST * AT 804 PM CST... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL REPORTED A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE OR NEAR LAKE VILAGE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SMALLER COMMUNITIES AND RURAL AREAS. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 67 &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Chicot | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 7:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.