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Tornado Warning 91, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 1:07 PM CST for Prentiss County, Mississippi. It was in force for 18 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 22, 1999, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 1:25 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Prentiss County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 1:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazeldell, MS | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1363 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMEM 221907 RRA TORMEM MSC117-221925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 107 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PRENTISS COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 125 PM CST * AT 104 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR NEW SITE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR BURTON 115 PM CST. .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. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 22, 7:17 AM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
ARZ027-028-035-036-048-049-MOZ113-115-221400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 717 AM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 ...THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ENDING OVER PARTS OF EASTERN ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED ACROSS SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 27 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. IN EASTERN ARKANSAS... CRITTENDEN...CROSS...LEE...MISSISSIPPI... POINSETT...ST. FRANCIS IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL... DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 27 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF TENNESSEE AND PARTS OF NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 9 AM THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION OR YOUR LOCAL CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION REGARDING THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
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, 11:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola | 35 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, 1:14 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 |
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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.