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Tornado Watch 13

January 17, 1999Hardin County, Illinois; 33 counties in Kentucky; 43 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 17, 1999, 6:30 PM CST for Hardin County, Illinois; 33 counties in Kentucky; 43 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 1999, 6:30 PM CST (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1999, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 77 counties

Hardin County, IL, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

54 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Henry	49 min
Jan 17, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hardin, Saline	55 min
Jan 17, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Lyon	55 min
Jan 17, 6:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henderson	50 min
Jan 17, 6:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll	47 min
Jan 17, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester	35 min
Jan 17, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Trigg	60 min
Jan 17, 6:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Decatur	63 min
Jan 17, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	McNairy	62 min
Jan 17, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Houston, Stewart	59 min
Jan 17, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chester, McNairy	49 min
Jan 17, 7:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Benton	63 min
Jan 17, 7:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Humphreys, Perry	65 min
Jan 17, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins	56 min
Jan 17, 7:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	62 min
Jan 17, 7:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Montgomery	62 min
Jan 17, 7:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg, Todd	61 min
Jan 17, 7:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lewis	64 min
Jan 17, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	61 min
Jan 17, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Dickson	61 min
Jan 17, 7:38 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	3 hr
Jan 17, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	30 min
Jan 17, 7:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Robertson	45 min
Jan 17, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	47 min
Jan 17, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Maury, Williamson	64 min
Jan 17, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Davidson	64 min
Jan 17, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	29 min
Jan 17, 8:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Davidson	48 min
Jan 17, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	32 min
Jan 17, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	27 min
Jan 17, 8:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Maury	65 min
Jan 17, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	20 min
Jan 17, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	50 min
Jan 17, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall, Rutherford	63 min
Jan 17, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wilson	63 min
Jan 17, 8:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence	63 min
Jan 17, 8:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	37 min
Jan 17, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Wayne	50 min
Jan 17, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith, Trousdale	64 min
Jan 17, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford	64 min
Jan 17, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	64 min
Jan 17, 8:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lawrence	48 min
Jan 17, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	61 min
Jan 17, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Jackson, Putnam	61 min
Jan 17, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Clay	61 min
Jan 17, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Metcalfe	36 min
Jan 17, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	36 min
Jan 17, 9:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	35 min
Jan 17, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	57 min
Jan 17, 9:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall	50 min
Jan 17, 9:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	63 min
Jan 17, 10:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee	36 min
Jan 17, 10:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy, Warren	93 min
Jan 17, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Grundy	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 687 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Bell, Boyle, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 16 more	7 hr
Jan 18, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blount, Bradley, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe, Polk and 1 more	6 hr

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.