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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Memphis, TN

April 5, 20259 counties in Mississippi; Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT for 9 counties in Mississippi; Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 5, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Benton County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Panola County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 3:43 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 5, 1:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
155 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0151 PM     Flash Flood      West Memphis            35.15N 90.19W
04/05/2025                   Crittenden         AR   Public

            Water rescues in West Memphis.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
242 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0241 PM     Flash Flood      1 NNE Downtown Memphis  35.15N 90.04W
04/05/2025                   Shelby             TN   Broadcast Media

            Foot of water cover I-40 near Danny Thomas
            Blvd.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
244 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0243 PM     Flash Flood      1 N Haynes              34.91N 90.79W
04/05/2025                   St. Francis        AR   Public

            Report of 1-2 feet of water covering HWY 1
            at St. Francis and Lee County line.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
245 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0240 PM     Flash Flood      1 W Paris               36.30N 88.33W
04/05/2025                   Henry              TN   Public

            Flash flooding reported over roadway at W.
            Blythe and Porter St.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
248 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0210 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     5 E Blytheville         35.93N 89.83W
04/05/2025  M59 MPH          Mississippi        AR   ASOS

            ASOS station KHKA Blytheville.

&&

Local storm report, Apr 5, 2:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
250 PM CDT Sat Apr 5 2025

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

0249 PM     Flash Flood      2 NW Dresden            36.30N 88.71W
04/05/2025                   Weakley            TN   Public

            Streets and Highways flooded in Dresden.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	40 min
Apr 5, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion, Weakley	5 hr
Apr 5, 2:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Tipton	5 hr
Apr 5, 2:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	34 min
Apr 5, 3:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	28 min
Apr 5, 3:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale	24 min
Apr 5, 3:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	30 min
Apr 5, 3:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	38 min
Apr 5, 3:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	36 min
Apr 5, 3:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	30 min
Apr 5, 4:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Gibson, Obion, Weakley	20 min
Apr 5, 4:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	9 min
Apr 5, 4:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	3 hr
Apr 5, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Henry, Madison and 1 more	41 min
Apr 5, 5:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry	36 min
Apr 5, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Henry, Lauderdale and 3 more	3 hr
Apr 5, 7:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Shelby and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 5, 8:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	3 hr
Apr 5, 9:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Madison	105 min
Apr 5, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	4 days
Apr 5, 9:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	12 hr
Apr 5, 10:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 12 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 11:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	7 hr
Apr 5, 12:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	42 min
Apr 5, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	54 min
Apr 5, 12:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	47 min
Apr 5, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale	50 min
Apr 5, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	47 min
Apr 5, 1:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	43 min
Apr 5, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MEG	Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	54 min
Apr 5, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	51 min
Apr 5, 1:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake, Obion and 1 more	8 hr
Apr 5, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	53 min
Apr 5, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	24 min
Apr 5, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale and 3 more	46 min
Apr 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	MEG	Shelby	6 hr
Apr 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henderson	39 min
Apr 5, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 3 more	43 min
Apr 5, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry and 2 more	58 min
Apr 5, 4:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Fayette	42 min
Apr 5, 4:38 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	9 days
Apr 5, 4:41 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Perry	12 days
Apr 5, 4:44 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Benton, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	59 hr
Apr 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Shelby	61 min
Apr 5, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy	62 min
Apr 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 12 more	3 hr
Apr 5, 9:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	5 days
Apr 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica	64 min
Apr 5, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma	52 min
Apr 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma	25 min
Apr 5, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	16 min
Apr 5, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica	26 min
Apr 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	52 min
Apr 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	39 min
Apr 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	49 min
Apr 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	52 min
Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha	44 min
Apr 5, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall	33 min
Apr 5, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah, Union	33 min
Apr 5, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union	38 min
Apr 5, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Prentiss, Tippah, Union	41 min
Apr 5, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	40 min
Apr 5, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Union	47 min
Apr 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	3 hr
Apr 4, 11:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene	3 hr
Apr 5, 12:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	3 hr
Apr 5, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	31 min
Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Poinsett and 1 more	43 min
Apr 5, 1:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett, St. Francis	40 min
Apr 5, 1:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene	3 hr
Apr 5, 2:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	30 min
Apr 5, 2:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett	16 min
Apr 5, 3:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	6 hr
Apr 5, 10:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	St. Francis	34 hr
Apr 5, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis	54 min
Apr 5, 12:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Poinsett	39 min
Apr 5, 12:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis	51 min
Apr 5, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 3 more	59 min
Apr 5, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.