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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Memphis, TN

May 18, 2025Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2025, 2:23 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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 18, 2025, 2:23 AM CDT (07:23 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 18, 12:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 12:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 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 18, 3:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee, Pontotoc	27 min
May 18, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	27 min
May 18, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	31 min
May 18, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	60 min
May 18, 8:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	43 min
May 18, 8:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman	12 min
May 18, 8:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie	48 min
May 18, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	41 min
May 18, 10:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Yalobusha	17 min
May 18, 10:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	43 min
May 18, 11:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	29 min
May 18, 11:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	23 min
May 18, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Mississippi	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.