Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 27
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 22, 1999, 3:00 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 1999, 3:00 AM CST (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Arkansas County, AR, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lee County, AR, Lincoln County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Monroe County, AR, Phillips County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Union County, AR, Pemiscot County, MO, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Perry County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Tipton County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chester | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 3:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | St. Francis | 46 min |
| Jan 22, 3:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Monroe, Prairie | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 3:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Decatur | 60 min |
| Jan 22, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Henderson | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 3:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 3:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Houston, Humphreys | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 3:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Decatur | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 3:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Carroll | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Madison | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 4:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Humphreys | 62 min |
| Jan 22, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 5:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 6:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 39 min |
| Jan 22, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman | 40 min |
| Jan 22, 7:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Chicot | 62 min |
| Jan 22, 8:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 8:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 8:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 8:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 8:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 8:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 63 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1259 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 56 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 8:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pike and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Tishomingo | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Scott and 1 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.