The tornado outbreak of January 21, 1999
86 tornadoesArkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and 3 more states
86 tornadoes touched down across 6 states between 3:10 PM and 11:28 PM CST, 10 of them rated F3 or stronger, and 8 people were killed. The 9th-most tornadoes of any day since 1950.
Watch the day unfoldTornado outbreak · January 21, 1999
How the day unfolded
Every tornado recorded that day, at its logged touchdown time and along its path, with the counties it crossed.
The day in numbers
- Tornadoes
- 86
- 9th of 12,998 tornado days since 1950
- F3 or stronger
- 10
- 1 rated F4 or F5
- Killed
- 8
- Along all the paths
- Injured
- 143
- Along all the paths
- Path miles
- 618
- All the paths end to end
- First and last
- 3:10 PM to 11:28 PM
- Touchdowns, Central Standard Time
Hour by hour
Tornadoes touching down in each hour, Central Standard Time.
Every tornado
In order of touchdown. One has a record page, linked from the rating.
By state
Tornadoes in 1999 · On this date in other years · The biggest outbreak days
Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025. A day is SPC’s calendar date in Central Standard Time; an outbreak day here has 40 or more tornadoes, or 6 or more rated F3/EF3 or stronger.