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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 9:49 PM CST for East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 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 21, 1999, 9:49 PM CST (03:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1999, 10:35 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County East Carroll Parish, LA
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, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 220349 RRA TORJAN LAC035-220435- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 949 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 1035 PM CST * AT 946 PM CST... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF LAKE PROVIDENCE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL EFFECT LAKE PROVIDENCE BY 950 PM. 4 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
Local storm report, Jan 21, 9:40 PM CST, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1040 PM CDT THU JAN 21 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0316 PM CLEVELAND MS TORNADO
01/21/99 BOLIVAR PILOT REPORTED TORNADO 5
MILES NORTHWEST OF
CLEVELAND.
0316 PM CLEVELAND MS TORNADO
01/21/99 BOLIVAR TRAILER OVER TURNED DAMAGE
AND DEBRIS. ROOF TORN OFF
A SHOP WITH A TRACTOR
FLIPPED OVER ON A FARM.
0755 PM AR 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 CHICOT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT LAKE
VILLAGE.
8903 PM
01/21/99 CHICOT AR TORNADO NEAR LAKE VILLAGE.
0820 PM MS 1.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 WASHINGTON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT
METCALFE.
0830 PM AR 2.75 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 CHICOT BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT LAKE
VILLAGE.
0907 PM AIMWELL LA TORNADO TOUCH DOWN NEAR
01/21/99 CATAHOULA AIMWELL...WEST OF
HARRISBURG.
0928 PM SHAW MS TORNADO TOUCH DOWN BETWEEN
01/21/99 BOLIVAR INDIANOLA AND SHAW.
0934 PM SHAW MS TORNADO ON GROUND.
01/21/99 BOLIVAR TORNADO.
0959 PM LA TORNADO
01/21/99 CATAHOULA TORNADO...POWERLINES AND
TREES DOWN.
1033 PM HOLLANDALE MS TORNADO
01/21/99 WASHINGTON TORNADO REPORTED 2 MILES
SW OF HOLLANDALE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 7:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Richland | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 8:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tensas | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 9:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Tensas | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 10:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 51 min |
| Jan 21, 10:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 11:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 6:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 7:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | West Carroll | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 7:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Morehouse | 40 min |
| Jan 22, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Catahoula, Concordia | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 12:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Catahoula | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 12:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Tensas | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 12:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Concordia | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 48 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.