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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Memphis, TN

April 2, 20245 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2024, 3:14 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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 2, 2024, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2024, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Union County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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.

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 2, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Apr 2, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 12:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:09 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
1009 AM CDT Tue Apr 2 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0933 AM     Hail             Finger                  35.36N 88.61W
04/02/2024  E0.75 inch       McNairy            TN   Trained Spotter

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Apr 2, 10:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
1053 AM CDT Tue Apr 2 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0746 AM     Hail             2 SE Southaven          34.96N 89.97W
04/02/2024  E1.00 inch       DeSoto             MS   Broadcast Media

            Hail up to the size of quarters south of the
            intersection of Goodman Rd and Swinnea Rd.

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Apr 2, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
115 PM CDT Tue Apr 2 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1006 AM     Hail             4 ENE Decaturville      35.60N 88.05W
04/02/2024  M1.00 inch       Decatur            TN   Public

&&

MJ

Local storm report, Apr 2, 3:07 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
307 PM CDT Tue Apr 2 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 AM     Hail             2 WSW Bartlett          35.20N 89.87W
04/02/2024  E1.00 inch       Shelby             TN   Local Official

            Tree down across road at Sycamore View Rd
            and Main St.

&&

MJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	46 min
Apr 2, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	25 min
Apr 2, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	36 min
Apr 2, 8:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	29 min
Apr 2, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	31 min
Apr 2, 8:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	26 min
Apr 2, 9:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Madison	40 min
Apr 2, 9:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henderson	28 min
Apr 2, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy, Madison	38 min
Apr 2, 3:38 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	8 hr
Apr 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin, McNairy	41 min
Apr 2, 7:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tunica	32 min
Apr 2, 7:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman	28 min
Apr 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	37 min
Apr 2, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tippah	27 min
Apr 2, 7:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	29 min
Apr 2, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.