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Tornado Watch 217

May 5, 1999Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; 52 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 5, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT for Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; 52 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1999, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Phillips	51 min
May 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	49 min
May 5, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tunica	45 min
May 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	47 min
May 5, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	50 min
May 5, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	49 min
May 5, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola, Tallahatchie	32 min
May 5, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	DeSoto	33 min
May 5, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	47 min
May 5, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	35 min
May 5, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sunflower	48 min
May 5, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	32 min
May 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Issaquena	50 min
May 5, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore	48 min
May 5, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	50 min
May 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	33 min
May 5, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	49 min
May 5, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sunflower	50 min
May 5, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	52 min
May 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	51 min
May 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	36 min
May 5, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	46 min
May 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	50 min
May 5, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	48 min
May 5, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	47 min
May 5, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	51 min
May 5, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	31 min
May 5, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	49 min
May 5, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Union	46 min
May 5, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tippah	51 min
May 5, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	50 min
May 5, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	49 min
May 5, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Humphreys	49 min
May 5, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss	31 min
May 5, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Grenada, Montgomery	48 min
May 5, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	46 min
May 5, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	48 min
May 5, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	51 min
May 5, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	45 min
May 5, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	50 min
May 5, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	48 min
May 5, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sharkey	50 min
May 5, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Choctaw, Montgomery, Webster	49 min
May 5, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clay, Oktibbeha	49 min
May 5, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	49 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys	119 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Issaquena	119 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Sharkey	119 min
May 5, 8:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Montgomery	119 min
May 5, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena	48 min
May 5, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 2115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.8
Supercell composite: 12.7

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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
May 5, 7:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lee and 4 more	6 hr
May 5, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 29 more	7 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.