Tornado in Arkansas, January 21, 1999

Name: Tornado in Arkansas, January 21, 1999
Start: 1999-01-21T17:02
End: 1999-01-21T17:30
Location: Arkansas

January 21, 1999 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
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.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Monroe

When: January 21, 5:02 PM CST to 5:30 PM CST
Where: Monroe County, Clarendon to 2 mi E of Brinkley
Rating: F3
Path length: 20 mi
Path width: 500 yd
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 34.670, -91.270

A strong tornado was spawned in southern Monroe County. The tornado flipped over a tractor 8 miles south of Brinkley. About 3 miles southeast of Brinkley, the tornado destroyed a home with nothing left but the foundation. As the tornado moved northeast, the tornado damaged some transmission towers. The tornado tracked through much of eastern Monroe County and weakened some before moving into St. Francis County (Memphis County Warning Area) and the Wheatley area.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Arkansas in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Arkansas, 1999 Warnings 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: 5684592.