Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 8:20 PM CST for Dyer County, Obion County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 21, 1999, 8:20 PM CST (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1999, 9:05 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dyer County, TN, Obion County, TN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 8:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Union City, TN | A commercial building lost part of its roof. |
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 21, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1259 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 220219 RRA TORMEM TNC045-131-220305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 820 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DYER COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE OBION COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 905 PM CST * AT 817 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO BETWEEN UNIONVILLE AND HELOISE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MISTON BY 830 PM CST MILLSFIELD BY 830 PM CST OBION BY 845 PM CST HORNBEAK BY 845 PM CST SAMBURG BY 850 PM CST TROY BY 855 PM CST UNION CITY BY 905 PM CST .THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 11:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lake | 51 min |
| Jan 21, 11:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 12:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 12:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 17 min |
| Jan 22, 1:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 2:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 2:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 2:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 2:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Carroll | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 5:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 6:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 39 min |
| Jan 22, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 40 min |
| Jan 22, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Hardeman, McNairy | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 11:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson, Madison | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 11:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 12:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | McNairy | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 1:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Hardin | 32 min |
| Jan 22, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 32 min |
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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.