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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 2008, 12:41 AM CDT for Cross County, Poinsett County, Arkansas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2008, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2008, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cross County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 4, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 23 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 49 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 25 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 20 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 7 days |
| Apr 3, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Madison | 4 days |
| Apr 4, 10:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Lawrence, Poinsett | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 38 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.