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Tornado Warning 95, NWS Memphis, TN

January 22, 1999Lee County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 2:53 PM CST for Lee County, Mississippi. 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, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1999, 3:25 PM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 22, 9:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1999-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1999-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 307 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

000 
TTAA00 KMEM 222052 RRA
TORMEM
MSC081-222125-

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


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL LEE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 325 PM CST

* AT 250 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF TUPELO... MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SALTILLO BY 255 PM CST
  CHAPELVILLE BY 305 PM CST

.WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 21, 10:02 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTallahatchie48 min
Jan 21, 10:08 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGQuitman47 min
Jan 21, 10:29 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPanola51 min
Jan 21, 10:46 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTate39 min
Jan 21, 10:56 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGDeSoto49 min
Jan 21, 11:08 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGMarshall32 min
Jan 21, 11:12 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGQuitman, Tallahatchie48 min
Jan 21, 11:55 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPanola35 min
Jan 21, 11:59 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGQuitman, Tallahatchie31 min
Jan 22, 12:00 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGTate45 min
Jan 22, 12:32 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGPanola18 min
Jan 22, 1:06 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMarshall, Tate49 min
Jan 22, 1:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall, Tate45 min
Jan 22, 2:23 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Marshall47 min
Jan 22, 3:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMarshall49 min
Jan 22, 8:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie, Yalobusha48 min
Jan 22, 8:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola34 min
Jan 22, 8:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLafayette50 min
Jan 22, 9:43 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton37 min
Jan 22, 10:05 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMarshall35 min
Jan 22, 10:18 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton32 min
Jan 22, 10:29 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGLafayette51 min
Jan 22, 10:35 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGTippah35 min
Jan 22, 10:50 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGYalobusha20 min
Jan 22, 11:23 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton, Tippah32 min
Jan 22, 11:49 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGCalhoun31 min
Jan 22, 12:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Pontotoc32 min
Jan 22, 12:43 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee17 min
Jan 22, 12:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGAlcorn, Prentiss44 min
Jan 22, 12:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba17 min
Jan 22, 1:01 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGAlcorn19 min
Jan 22, 1:07 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPrentiss18 min
Jan 22, 1:14 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTishomingo31 min
Jan 22, 1:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun36 min
Jan 22, 1:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe21 min
Jan 22, 2:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPontotoc49 min
Jan 22, 2:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMonroe16 min
Jan 22, 2:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee33 min
Jan 22, 2:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun35 min
Jan 22, 3:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPrentiss33 min
Jan 22, 3:06 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPrentiss34 min
Jan 22, 3:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTishomingo32 min
Jan 22, 3:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCalhoun49 min
Jan 22, 4:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChickasaw48 min
Jan 22, 4:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Pontotoc50 min
Jan 22, 4:56 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, Prentiss34 min
Jan 22, 5:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba35 min
Jan 22, 5:39 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTishomingo21 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.