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Tornado Watch 29

January 22, 1999Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; 75 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 22, 1999, 9:00 AM CST for Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas; 75 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 1999, 9:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 1999, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 77 counties

Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Alcorn County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion 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, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Warren County, MS, Washington County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 9:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	49 min
Jan 22, 9:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leflore	46 min
Jan 22, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	45 min
Jan 22, 9:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne	49 min
Jan 22, 9:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	47 min
Jan 22, 9:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	51 min
Jan 22, 9:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton	37 min
Jan 22, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	50 min
Jan 22, 10:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	47 min
Jan 22, 10:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Marshall	35 min
Jan 22, 10:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	30 min
Jan 22, 10:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Copiah	46 min
Jan 22, 10:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	48 min
Jan 22, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton	32 min
Jan 22, 10:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada	62 min
Jan 22, 10:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	51 min
Jan 22, 10:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tippah	35 min
Jan 22, 10:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	47 min
Jan 22, 10:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	46 min
Jan 22, 10:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	20 min
Jan 22, 11:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	50 min
Jan 22, 11:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Tippah	32 min
Jan 22, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun	31 min
Jan 22, 11:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison, Yazoo	50 min
Jan 22, 12:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Yazoo	48 min
Jan 22, 12:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	47 min
Jan 22, 12:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	50 min
Jan 22, 12:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	32 min
Jan 22, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Winston	46 min
Jan 22, 12:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	17 min
Jan 22, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss	44 min
Jan 22, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	17 min
Jan 22, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Oktibbeha	49 min
Jan 22, 1:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn	19 min
Jan 22, 1:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	46 min
Jan 22, 1:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Prentiss	18 min
Jan 22, 1:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	48 min
Jan 22, 1:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	31 min
Jan 22, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Sharkey	50 min
Jan 22, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes	51 min
Jan 22, 1:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	36 min
Jan 22, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	47 min
Jan 22, 1:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee	50 min
Jan 22, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys	47 min
Jan 22, 1:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	21 min
Jan 22, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	48 min
Jan 22, 2:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	50 min
Jan 22, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	49 min
Jan 22, 2:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Claiborne	47 min
Jan 22, 2:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jan 22, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	49 min
Jan 22, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	16 min
Jan 22, 2:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Warren	49 min
Jan 22, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala, Carroll, Holmes	49 min
Jan 22, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee	33 min
Jan 22, 2:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	49 min
Jan 22, 2:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Montgomery	47 min
Jan 22, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	30 min
Jan 22, 2:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	35 min
Jan 22, 2:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	32 min
Jan 22, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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: 958 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.2

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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 21, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 56 more	6 hr
Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 13 more	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

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.