Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Memphis, TN

January 17, 1999Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1999, 8:18 PM CST for Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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 17, 1999, 8:18 PM CST (02:18 UTC)
Expired
Jan 17, 1999, 9:05 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Tishomingo County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1999-01-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1999-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

999 
WUUS1 KMEM 180217 RRA
SVRMEM
MSC141-180305-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
818 PM CST SUN JAN 17 1999


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TISHOMINGO COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 905 PM CST

* AT 815 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS FROM PICKWICK TO CORINTH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
  ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.

* THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BURNSVILLE BY 825 PM CST
  IUKA BY 840 PM CST

.SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 17, 7:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn, Benton, Tippah47 min
Jan 17, 7:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall47 min
Jan 17, 8:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola, Quitman48 min
Jan 17, 8:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette48 min
Jan 17, 9:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGBenton35 min
Jan 17, 9:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie47 min
Jan 17, 9:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha48 min
Jan 17, 9:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion47 min
Jan 17, 9:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPrentiss47 min
Jan 17, 10:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun, Pontotoc64 min
Jan 17, 10:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha33 min
Jan 17, 10:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw49 min
Jan 17, 10:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee51 min
Jan 17, 11:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe47 min
Jan 17, 11:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.