Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1999, 6:28 PM CST for Hardeman County, Tennessee. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 17, 1999, 6:28 PM CST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1999, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardeman County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Grand Jct, TN | The tornado started in extreme southeast Fayette county and moved northeast. Fourteen homes including several mobile homes were destroyed and another 27 homes were damaged near Saulsbury. More than thirty power poles were knocked down. |
| Jan 17, 7:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Middleton, TN | A church steeple was damaged. Numerous trees were blown down. |
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 17, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KMEM 180027 RRA SVRMEM TNC069-180115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 628 PM CST SUN JAN 17 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARDEMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 626 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM MERCER TO MOSCOW MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... HICKORY VALLEY BY 640 PM CST BOLIVAR BY 650 PM CST POCAHONTAS BY 700 PM CST .A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 17, 2:00 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>054-088>092-180300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 200 PM CST SUN JAN 17 1999 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE..INCLUDING NORTHEAST ARKANSAS..THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL..WEST TENNESSEE..AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI. RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED IN THE MIDSOUTH. MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS NOW CENTERED OVER MEMPHIS TENNESSEE..WITH THIS RISK EXTENDING OUT AROUND 75 MILES. A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXITS FOR THE REST OF THE MIDSOUTH. AN AREA OF STORMS IS DEVELOPING FROM NORTH CENTRAL TO SOUTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERY STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE FILLING THE ATMOSPHERE WITH INCREASINGLY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL UNTIL A COLD FROM PASSES THIS EVENING. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO..COMMERCIAL RADIO..TV AND CABLE TELEVISION OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 64 min |
| Jan 17, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Crockett, Gibson | 36 min |
| Jan 17, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Weakley | 48 min |
| Jan 17, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henry | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 37 min |
| Jan 17, 6:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 50 min |
| Jan 17, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 35 min |
| Jan 17, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 47 min |
| Jan 17, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 50 min |
| Jan 17, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | McNairy | 62 min |
| Jan 17, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester, McNairy | 49 min |
| Jan 17, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 62 min |
| Jan 17, 7:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Hardeman, McNairy | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:38 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 47 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.