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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 7:33 AM CST for West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 37 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 22, 1999, 7:33 AM CST (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 8:10 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County West 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 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KJAN 221334 RRA TORJAN LAC123-221410- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 733 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CARROLL PARISH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 810 AM CST * AT 731 AM CST... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF OAK GROVE OR 11 MILES WEST OF FOREST... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM INCLUDE... FOREST AT 740 AM CST OAK GROVE AT 745 AM CST KILBOURNE AT 755 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 74
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 22, 2:14 AM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
214 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....PARISH/COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM JONES LA WIND DAMAGE
01/21/99 MOREHOUSE ROOFING TORN OFF AND TREES
DOWN
0830 PM LAKE VLG AR WIND DAMAGE
01/21/99 CHICOT 18 WHEELER BLOWN OVER
0945 PM GILBERT LA TORNADO
01/21/99 FRANKLIN
0950 PM RULEVILLE MS TORNADO
01/21/99 SUNFLOWER
1000 PM 10 S NEW LIGHT LA TORNADO
01/21/99 TENSAS SEVERAL HOUSES DESTROYED
AND MANY DAMAGED
THROUGHOUT PARISH
1015 PM NEWELLTON LA TORNADO
01/21/99 TENSAS WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
THROUGHOUT PARISH
1035 PM TALLULAH LA TORNADO
01/21/99 MADISON *** 1 INJ ***
EIGHT 18 WHEELERS AND
SEVERAL CARS BLOWN OFF
I-20
1103 PM 4 N INDIANOLA MS TORNADO
01/21/99 SUNFLOWER A LARGE LONG TRACK TORNADO
THROUGHOUT COUNTY CAUSING
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
1115 PM BOYLE MS WIND DAMAGE
01/21/99 BOLIVAR EOC REPORTED ROOF BLOWN
OFF HOMES
1115 PM VICKSBURG MS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
01/21/99 WARREN
1115 PM 9 NNW ITTA BENA MS TORNADO
01/21/99 LEFLORE 3/4 MILE WIDE DAMAGE PATH
REPORTED BY MSU CHASE TEAMThe 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, 9:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | East Carroll | 46 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, 7:40 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 |
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.