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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

April 9, 2021Lee County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Apr 9, 2021, 5:24 PM CDT for Lee County, Arkansas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 2021, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 2021, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

County Lee County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 8, 5:52 PM CDT, 23 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 5:52 PM CDT, 23 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman	33 min
Apr 9, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tunica	35 min
Apr 9, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	49 min
Apr 9, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Marshall	39 min
Apr 9, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie	40 min
Apr 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Union	37 min
Apr 9, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie	29 min
Apr 9, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Tippah, Union	38 min
Apr 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Tippah, Union	21 min
Apr 9, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc, Union	48 min
Apr 9, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Yalobusha	46 min
Apr 9, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	48 min
Apr 9, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	28 min
Apr 9, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Dyer	26 min
Apr 9, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	26 min
Apr 9, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Tipton	41 min
Apr 9, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison	52 min
Apr 9, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	50 min
Apr 9, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley	29 min
Apr 9, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy, Madison	49 min
Apr 9, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Madison	15 min
Apr 9, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	23 min
Apr 9, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	30 min
Apr 9, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	48 min
Apr 9, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene	53 min
Apr 9, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	41 min
Apr 9, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	27 min
Apr 9, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	St. Francis	26 min

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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.