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Tornado Warning 92, NWS Memphis, TN

January 22, 1999McNairy County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 1:11 PM CST for McNairy County, Tennessee. It was in force for 34 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 22, 1999, 1:11 PM CST (19:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Whole counties

County McNairy County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 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

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The text

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

999 
WFUS1 KMEM 221910 RRA
TORMEM
TNC109-221945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
111 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCNAIRY COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 110 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER NORTHEAST
ALCORN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH TO 50 MPH.


* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SHILOH BY 120 PM
SAVANNAH BY 130 PM

.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.



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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 54 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, 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, 3:26 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, 1:18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.