Alert archive / Tennessee / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 94, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 1:18 PM CST for Hardin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 32 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, 1:18 PM CST (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 1:50 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, TN
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, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 221917 RRA TORMEM TNC071-221950- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 118 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HARDIN COUNTY IN WESTERN TENNESSEE * UNTIL 150 PM CST * AT 117 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST HARDIN COUNTY FROM 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 SBAFETY... 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, 3:26 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, 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.