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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Memphis, TN

January 21, 1999Panola County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 21, 1999, 11:55 PM CST for Panola County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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 21, 1999, 11:55 PM CST (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 12:30 AM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County Panola County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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.

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, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 52 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

999 
WFUS1 KMEM 220554 RRA
TORMEM
MSC107-220630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1155 PM CST THU JAN 21 1999


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1230 AM CST

* AT 1154 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTH OF CHARLESTON .. JUST EAST OF VANCE.  MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.


* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BATESVILLE AT 1210 AM

.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, 10:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	48 min
Jan 21, 10:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman	47 min
Jan 21, 10:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola	51 min
Jan 21, 10:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tate	39 min
Jan 21, 10:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	49 min
Jan 21, 11:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	32 min
Jan 21, 11:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman, Tallahatchie	48 min
Jan 21, 11:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Quitman, Tallahatchie	31 min
Jan 22, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tate	45 min
Jan 22, 12:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola	18 min
Jan 22, 1:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall, Tate	49 min
Jan 22, 1:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall, Tate	45 min
Jan 22, 2:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	47 min
Jan 22, 3:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	49 min
Jan 22, 8:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	48 min
Jan 22, 8:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	34 min
Jan 22, 8:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	50 min
Jan 22, 9:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton	37 min
Jan 22, 10:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	35 min
Jan 22, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton	32 min
Jan 22, 10:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	51 min
Jan 22, 10:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tippah	35 min
Jan 22, 10:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	20 min
Jan 22, 11:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Tippah	32 min
Jan 22, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	31 min
Jan 22, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	32 min
Jan 22, 12:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	17 min
Jan 22, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss	44 min
Jan 22, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	17 min
Jan 22, 1:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn	19 min
Jan 22, 1:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	18 min
Jan 22, 1:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	31 min
Jan 22, 1:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	36 min
Jan 22, 1:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	21 min
Jan 22, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	49 min
Jan 22, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	16 min
Jan 22, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	33 min
Jan 22, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	35 min
Jan 22, 2:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	32 min
Jan 22, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	33 min
Jan 22, 3:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	34 min
Jan 22, 3:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	32 min
Jan 22, 3:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	49 min
Jan 22, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	48 min
Jan 22, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	50 min
Jan 22, 4:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Prentiss	34 min
Jan 22, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	35 min
Jan 22, 5:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.