Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 7:53 AM CST for Chicot County, Arkansas. It was in force for 62 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 22, 1999, 7:53 AM CST (13:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 8:55 AM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chicot County, AR
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 8:23 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Eudora, AR | This tornado passed through an open field and no damage was reported. |
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 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 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
- 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.
000 TTAA00 KJAN 221353 RRA TORJAN ARC017-221455- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 753 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHICOT COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS * UNTIL 855 AM CST * AT 751 AM CST... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUDORA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM... EUDORA AT 800 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 39 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, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 8:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | 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 |
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.