Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 26
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 22, 1999, 2:45 AM CST for 5 counties in Illinois; 23 counties in Indiana; 35 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 1999, 2:45 AM CST (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pike, Warrick | 25 min |
| Jan 22, 3:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 3:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Vanderburgh | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 51 min |
| Jan 22, 5:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 40 min |
| Jan 22, 6:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 21, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1999Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1999Tornado Watches in Illinois, 1999Every tornado watch in 1999
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.