Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 6:21 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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, 6:21 PM CST (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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, 6:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Whistler, MS | High winds ripped an awning off a service station along HWY 84 near Whistler. No one was injured. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1843 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.2
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMOB 230022 RRA TORMOB MSC153-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 621 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 618 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF WHISTLER... MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- WHISTLER BY 635 PM CST BOICE BY 640 PM CST HIWANNEE BY 645 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 8:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 40 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.