Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 69, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 1:30 AM CST for Fayette County, Tennessee. It was in force for 45 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 22, 1999, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 1:56 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | La Grange, TN | A few trees were blown down. |
| Jan 22, 2:05 AM CST | Hail 0.88 | Williston, TN |
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, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 220729 TORMEM TNC047-220815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 130 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 215 AM CST * AT 124 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO BETWEEN BYHALIA AND RED BANKS... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MOSCOW BY 140 AM CST LACONIA BY 150 AM 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 B`UILDING 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, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Dyer, Obion | 45 min |
| 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.