Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 76, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 3:26 AM CST for Henderson County, Tennessee. It was in force for 49 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, 3:26 AM CST (09:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 4:15 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 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, 3:46 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Countywide, TN | Hail ranged in size from marble to golfball across the county. |
| Jan 22, 3:46 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, TN | Several trees and power lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
999 WFUS1 KMEM 220925 RRA TORMEM TNC077-221015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 326 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 415 AM CST * AT 323 AM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR HENDERSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MIDDLE FORK BY 330 AM CST LEXINGTON BY 340 AM CST DARDEN BY 350 AM CST WILDERSVILLE BY 350 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 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, 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, 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, 3:51 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 |
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.