Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 119, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1999, 7:40 PM CDT for McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 35 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
- May 5, 1999, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1999, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County McNairy County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramer, TN | Some structures were damaged. A few trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 5, 8:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Selmer, TN | More than 40 homes were damaged and a dozen mobile homes were damaged or destroyed. Several 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMEM 060039 RRA TORMEM TNC109-060115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 740 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCNAIRY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 739 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST EAST OF RAMER ALONG HIGHWAY 57. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STANTONVILLE BY 750 PM. .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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 32 min |
| May 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 31 min |
| May 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 46 min |
| May 5, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll, Henderson | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.