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Tornado Watch 34

January 22, 199937 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Mississippi; 39 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 22, 1999, 7:00 PM CST for 37 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Mississippi; 39 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 1999, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1999, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 92 counties

Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Greene County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 7:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	49 min
Jan 22, 7:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	3 hr
Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	6 hr
Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens	6 hr
Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Franklin, Winston	6 hr
Jan 22, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Marshall	31 min
Jan 22, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	65 min
Jan 22, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Marion	32 min
Jan 22, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	47 min
Jan 22, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert	34 min
Jan 22, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	49 min
Jan 22, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	35 min
Jan 22, 8:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Limestone	46 min
Jan 22, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	51 min
Jan 22, 8:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Lewis, Maury	4 hr
Jan 22, 8:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	4 hr
Jan 22, 8:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	37 min
Jan 22, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	49 min
Jan 22, 8:46 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	94 min
Jan 22, 8:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Stewart	4 hr
Jan 22, 8:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Robertson	4 hr
Jan 22, 8:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman	4 hr
Jan 22, 9:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Limestone	4 hr
Jan 22, 9:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke	95 min
Jan 22, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	40 min
Jan 22, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	56 min
Jan 22, 9:39 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Wayne	3 hr
Jan 22, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	47 min
Jan 22, 10:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Davidson, Marshall, Rutherford, Williamson	6 hr
Jan 22, 10:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Sumner, Wilson	6 hr
Jan 22, 10:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Bedford, Lincoln, Moore	6 hr
Jan 22, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	34 min
Jan 22, 10:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	35 min
Jan 22, 11:06 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Madison, Morgan	4 hr
Jan 22, 11:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Putnam	6 hr
Jan 22, 11:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Macon, Smith, Trousdale	6 hr
Jan 22, 11:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cannon, Coffee	6 hr
Jan 22, 11:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	DeKalb	6 hr
Jan 22, 11:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Benton, Decatur, Perry, Wayne	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Robertson	4 hr
Jan 23, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	OHX	Giles	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 456 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 644 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 12.6

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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 22, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Mobile	5 hr
Jan 23, 1:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 20 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 1999 Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1999 Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1999 Every 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.