Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2021, 1:24 AM CDT for Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2021, 1:24 AM CDT (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2021, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Itawamba County, MS, Monroe County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 1:40 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Amory, MS | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE WEST END OF PHILLIPS SCHOOLHOUSE RD. NEAR DAYCARE. |
| Mar 31, 1:40 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Ssw Amory, MS | TWO TREES DOWN ON HOME ALONG WEAVER CREEK RD. A NEARBY TRAILER LOST PART OF ITS ROOF. |
| Mar 31, 1:48 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hatley, MS | POWER LINES DOWN ON HATLEY AND SOUTH HATLEY ROADS. TIME IS RADAR ESTIMATED. |
| Mar 31, 1:49 AM CDT | TORNADO | Hatley, MS | THE FIRST DAMAGE WAS WEST OF HATLEY ROAD SOUTH. SEVERAL SHEDS WERE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. THE TORNADO CROSSED HATLEY ROAD, CAUSING MINOR ROOF AND TREE DAMAGE. NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN, SOME TREE TRUNKS WERE SNAPPED, AND POWER POLES WERE DAMAGED NEAR THORN |
| Mar 31, 1:54 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 E Hatley, MS | TREES DOWN ON WEAVER CREEK ROAD. ALSO REPORTS OF DEBRIS. TIME IS RADAR ESTIMATED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
323 WUUS54 KMEG 310624 SVRMEG MSC057-095-310715- /O.NEW.KMEG.SV.W.0067.210331T0624Z-210331T0715Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Memphis TN 124 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021 The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Itawamba County in northeastern Mississippi... Northern Monroe County in northeastern Mississippi... * Until 215 AM CDT. * At 124 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over New Wren, or near Okolona, moving east at 35 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Amory, Smithville, New Wren, Hatley, Sipsey Fork, Becker, Quincy, Bigbee, Turon, Splunge, Parham and Wren. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3392 8823 3387 8868 3402 8871 3414 8820 TIME...MOT...LOC 0624Z 255DEG 29KT 3396 8865 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
2 follow-up statements
382
WWUS54 KMEG 310637
SVSMEG
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
137 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021
MSC057-310647-
/O.CAN.KMEG.SV.W.0067.000000T0000Z-210331T0715Z/
Itawamba MS-
137 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ITAWAMBA COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 3388 8857 3400 8857 3407 8821 3392 8823
TIME...MOT...LOC 0637Z 255DEG 29KT 3399 8852
$$
MSC095-310715-
/O.CON.KMEG.SV.W.0067.000000T0000Z-210331T0715Z/
Monroe MS-
137 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY...
At 137 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Amory, moving
east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile
homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Amory, Hatley, Sipsey Fork, Becker, Quincy, Splunge and Parham.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3388 8857 3400 8857 3407 8821 3392 8823
TIME...MOT...LOC 0637Z 255DEG 29KT 3399 8852
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
$$262 WWUS54 KMEG 310650 SVSMEG Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Memphis TN 150 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021 MSC095-310715- /O.CON.KMEG.SV.W.0067.000000T0000Z-210331T0715Z/ Monroe MS- 150 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY... At 150 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Smithville, or near Amory, moving east at 35 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Amory, Hatley, Splunge, Parham, Sipsey Fork and Quincy. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3390 8843 3402 8847 3407 8821 3392 8823 TIME...MOT...LOC 0650Z 255DEG 29KT 3402 8840 TORNADO...POSSIBLE HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 50 min |
| Mar 31, 12:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe | 10 min |
| Mar 31, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 14 min |
| Mar 31, 1:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 2:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Coahoma | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 3:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 3:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 108 min |
| Mar 31, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Yalobusha | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 4:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Union | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 5:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie | 13 min |
| Mar 31, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 5:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 5:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:31 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:31 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 7 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 5:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 6:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
| Mar 31, 8:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 14 min |
| Mar 31, 9:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 23 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 22 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 19 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 4 days |
| Mar 31, 9:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 3 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:34 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 42 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.