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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Memphis, TN

May 8, 2025Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 3:31 PM CDT for Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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 8, 2025, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Itawamba County, MS, Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 8, 2:35 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:35 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 2:58 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 3:02 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 3:06 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 3:11 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 3:28 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 3:31 PM CDT, 0 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 7, 11:00 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	10 hr
May 8, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Weakley	23 min
May 8, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Obion	34 min
May 8, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Weakley	36 min
May 8, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	30 min
May 8, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Weakley	27 min
May 8, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	25 min
May 8, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	21 min
May 8, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	47 min
May 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Madison	25 min
May 8, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	31 min
May 8, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Henderson, Madison	51 min
May 8, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	36 min
May 8, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	20 min
May 8, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	22 min
May 8, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson	42 min
May 8, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton	37 min
May 8, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	McNairy	28 min
May 8, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	24 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	McNairy	31 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Shelby	27 min
May 8, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	23 min
May 8, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	49 min
May 8, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba, Lee	34 min
May 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	27 min
May 8, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Chickasaw	31 min
May 8, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	42 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.