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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Memphis, TN

May 1, 2025Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2025, 7:36 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It was in force for 39 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 1, 2025, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2025, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 307 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: 701 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 1, 6:47 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 6:47 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 5:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 1, 5:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 6:40 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 6:52 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 7:19 PM CDT, 17 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 2, 6:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	23 min
May 2, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison	26 min
May 2, 7:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	31 min
May 2, 8:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton	43 min
May 2, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	52 min
May 2, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	48 min
May 2, 8:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester	33 min
May 2, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Haywood	47 min
May 2, 8:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crockett, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	23 min
May 2, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	42 min
May 2, 9:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Tipton	45 min
May 2, 9:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Dyer	36 min
May 2, 9:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Tipton	28 min
May 2, 9:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Obion, Weakley	52 min
May 2, 9:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Shelby	51 min
May 2, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy	18 min
May 2, 10:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Madison	36 min
May 2, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Hardeman	28 min
May 2, 10:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry, Weakley	39 min
May 2, 10:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more	53 min
May 2, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson	32 min
May 2, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	64 min
May 2, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin, McNairy	40 min
May 2, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, McNairy	35 min
May 2, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	17 min
May 2, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	61 min
May 2, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Henderson and 3 more	44 min
May 2, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henderson, Madison	47 min
May 2, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, McNairy, Madison	58 min
May 2, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica	60 min
May 2, 11:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo	31 min
May 2, 12:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Tate, Yalobusha	46 min
May 2, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	36 min
May 2, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica	39 min
May 2, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union, Yalobusha	41 min
May 2, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	27 min
May 2, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Tishomingo	37 min
May 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola	33 min
May 2, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Tishomingo	55 min
May 2, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	67 min
May 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe, Tishomingo	66 min
May 2, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	35 min
May 2, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	51 min
May 2, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	38 min
May 1, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	26 min
May 1, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	35 min
May 2, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	41 min
May 2, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi, Poinsett	47 min
May 2, 8:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
May 2, 10:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Poinsett, St. Francis	58 min
May 2, 11:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	46 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.