Tornado, Jackson
- When
- January 17, 3:23 PM CST to 3:37 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County, Tuckerman to 3 mi SE of Swifton
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -91.220
Tornado in Arkansas, January 17, 1999
7 miles south-southwest of Tuckerman. As the tornado tracked northeast, it damaged a couple of houses in a subdivision south of Tuckerman.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
A weak tornado was spawned in northern Jackson County about 2.7 miles south-southwest of Tuckerman. As the tornado tracked northeast, it damaged a couple of houses in a subdivision south of Tuckerman. Bass boats, lawn tractors and a number of yard items were blown around. At the Tuckerman Sewer Plant, a building was damaged and a fence was blown down. Another home just northeast of Tuckerman suffered considerable damage...with one person injured. Several trees were downed or snapped as well. The tornado finally dissipated about 3.5 miles southeast of Swifton.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 17, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, January 17, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, January 17, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, January 17, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 17, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 17, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, January 17, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, January 17, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, January 17, 1999
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1999Warnings in Arkansas, January 1999
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5684604.