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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Memphis, TN

May 24, 20245 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2024, 3:18 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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: May 24, 2024, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.4
Supercell composite: -2.0

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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 May 24, 12:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 12:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 1:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 2:35 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 2:40 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 3:02 PM CDT, 16 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
May 24, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	31 min
May 24, 6:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	36 min
May 24, 6:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	18 min
May 24, 7:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	McNairy	27 min
May 24, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crockett	26 min
May 24, 7:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester, Madison	29 min
May 24, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Gibson	22 min
May 24, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Madison	30 min
May 24, 8:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake	28 min
May 24, 8:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	24 min
May 24, 8:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Madison	5 hr
May 24, 8:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	3 hr
May 24, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Lake, Madison, Obion and 1 more	32 min
May 24, 8:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	31 min
May 24, 8:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Madison	3 hr
May 24, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Madison, Obion, Weakley	34 min
May 24, 9:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Obion	68 min
May 24, 9:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Madison	9 min
May 24, 9:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Madison	4 hr
May 24, 10:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	5 hr
May 24, 11:03 AM CDT	Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	64 hr
May 24, 11:50 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Madison	2 hr
May 24, 11:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Haywood, Madison	3 hr
May 24, 12:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson	3 hr
May 24, 1:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Hardeman, Madison	2 hr
May 24, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	43 min
May 24, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Tippah	16 min
May 24, 7:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Tippah	3 hr
May 24, 7:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Prentiss	37 min
May 24, 9:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo	32 min
May 24, 9:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Prentiss, Tishomingo	3 hr
May 24, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	32 min
May 24, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	28 min
May 24, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	51 min
May 24, 12:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	33 min
May 24, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pontotoc	25 min
May 24, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	44 min
May 24, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe	33 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tate	25 min
May 24, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate, Tunica	50 min
May 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto	48 min
May 24, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica	38 min
May 24, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	DeSoto, Tate	48 min
May 24, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate	40 min
May 24, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma	32 min
May 24, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tate	52 min
May 24, 6:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate	3 hr
May 24, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Pontotoc, Yalobusha	50 min
May 24, 6:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	38 min
May 24, 7:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	27 min
May 24, 7:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	32 min
May 24, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	41 min
May 24, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	25 min
May 24, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	46 min
May 24, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.