Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 53, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 9:26 AM CST for Claiborne County, Mississippi. 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 22, 1999, 9:26 AM CST (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Claiborne County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Port Gibson, MS | Several trees were blown down along the Natchez Trace Parkway. |
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, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 221526 RRA TORJAN MSC021-221615- BULLETIN- EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 926 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAIBORNE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1015 AM CST * AT 924 AM CST... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORT GIBSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH ALONG THE NATCHEZ TRACE. * THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM... PORT GIBSON AT 940 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 9:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 9:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 10:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 10:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 10:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sunflower | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 10:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 36 min |
| Jan 21, 10:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 10:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 51 min |
| Jan 21, 11:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 51 min |
| Jan 21, 11:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 11:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 34 min |
| Jan 21, 11:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 12:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 8:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 8:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 8:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 9:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 9:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 9:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 10:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 30 min |
| Jan 22, 10:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 10:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 10:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 62 min |
| Jan 22, 10:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 10:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 11:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 12:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 12:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 12:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 1:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 1:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 1:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 2:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Holmes | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Madison | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 3:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 4:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Webster | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 15 min |
| Jan 22, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 5:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson | 46 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.