Tornado Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
236 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADED FOR SELMER AREA OF SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE...

DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME
SOUTHEAST HARDEMAN COUNTY TENNESSEE AT 225 AM.  HEADED EAST AT 25 MPH
THIS STORM WILL TRACK OVER WESTERN MCNAIRY COUNTY AND ACROSS THE CITY OF
SELMER BETWEEN 230 AM AND 315 AM THIS MORNING.

ALONG WITH A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF
BRINGING A STRONG WIND GUST AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES THROUGH.

THE STRONG STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHWEST
TENNESSEE.  WHILE THE HARDEMAN/MCNAIRY STORM WAS THE STRONGEST DETECTED
AT 225 AM ... OTHER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR FAIRLY RAPID
GROWTH DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS.

STAY TUNED TVO THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES ON THE MORNING
THUNDERSTORMS.

ARC021-031-035-055-093-111-241015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
313 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...

DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A NARROW LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ADVANCING
SOUTH INTO NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AT 305 AM.  THE THUNDERSTORM LINE AT THAT
TIME STRETCHED FROM NEAR CAIRO ILLINOIS WEST-SOUTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI TO NEAR MELBOURNE IN IZARD COUNTY ARKANSAS.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRESSING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH AND
WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARKANSAS
BY 430 THIS MORNING.  FIRST AFFECTED WILL BE THE CORNING/DELAPLAIN AREAS
IN CLAY AND GREENE COUNTIES.  THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE JONESBORO
PARAGOULD AREAS BY ABOPUT 500 AM.

ALONG WITH THE BRIEF DOWNPOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ... THESE STORMS MAY
BRING SOME HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.

ARC021-031-035-037-055-093-123-TNC047-069-113-109-157-241215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
507 AM CST THU MAR 24 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BRING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO EAST ARKANSAS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAKING TWO AREAS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS EARLY
THIS MORNING.  A VERY SLOW MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM
NEAR MAMOUTH SPRINGS EASTWARD ALONG THE ARKANSAS - MISSOURI STATE BORDER
AREA.  AND A CLUSTER OF INTENSE STORMS WAS MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL
ARKANSAS TOWARD THE WYNNE - JONESBORO AREA.

ALL OF THESE STORMS WILL BRING DEADLY LIGHTNING ... A PERIOD OF HEAVY
RAIN ... AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL.  STRONG GUSTS
OF WIND AND SMALL HAIL HAVE ACCOMPANIED SOME OF THE STORMS MOVING OUT OF
CENTRAL ARKANSAS.

ADDITIONALLY .. MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ON PARTS OF EXTREME
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS BY 500 AM.  DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR LOCATED A SWATH OF
HEAVIER RAIN NEAR THE MISSOURI - ARKANSAS BORDER - JUST NORTH OF
MCDOUGAL AND CORNING IN CLAY COUNTY ARKANSAS.

OTHER AREAS WITH NOTABLE RAINFALL INCLUDED THE AREA BETWEEN MARMADUKE
AND PIGGOTT - IN GREENE AND CLAY COUNTIES ... AND ACROSS CENTRAL PARTS
OF ST FRANCIS .. CROSS .. AND CRITTENDEN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS.

IN WEST TENNESSEE... THE HEAVIER RAINS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED
THE HEAVIER RAINS HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THE MOSCOW - LAGRANGE - SELMER
AREAS OF FAYETTE .. HARDEMAN .. MCNAIRY COUNTIES OF SOUHWEST TENNESSEE.

THE NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUE INCREASING ACROSS
EAST ARKANSAS AND WEST TENNESSEE THIS MORNING AS A COLD FRONT NEARS THE
AREA.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES ON THE MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.