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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Memphis, TN

February 15, 2025Tipton County, Tennessee; 5 counties in Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2025, 5:10 PM CST for Tipton County, Tennessee; 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 50 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: Feb 15, 2025, 5:10 PM CST (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR, St. Francis County, AR, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
Feb 15, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 461 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 461 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Feb 15, 4:34 PM CST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 4:34 PM CST, 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 15, 12:11 PM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
1211 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

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

1133 AM     Flash Flood      1 ENE Dyersburg         36.04N 89.37W
02/15/2025                   Dyer               TN   911 Call Center

            several roads across Dyer County and the
            city of Dyersburg are either closed due to
            high water or nearly impassable. This
            includes Hwy 105 in Trimble, Hwy 104 W in
            Finley, Lenox Nauvoo at I-155, and Hogwallow
            Rd at Jones Rd.

&&

Local storm report, Feb 15, 1:26 PM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
126 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

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

0125 PM     Flash Flood      1 S Trenton             35.96N 88.94W
02/15/2025                   Gibson             TN   Emergency Mngr

            College Street in Trenton is mostly covered
            by water and impassable.

&&

Local storm report, Feb 15, 1:28 PM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
128 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

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

0127 PM     Flash Flood      4 WNW Dresden           36.30N 88.76W
02/15/2025                   Weakley            TN   Emergency Mngr

            Low-lying parts of Miles Rd in between
            Martin and Dresden TN is fully inundated.

&&

Local storm report, Feb 15, 1:29 PM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
129 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

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

0117 PM     Flash Flood      4 ENE Camden            36.09N 88.05W
02/15/2025                   Benton             TN   Emergency Mngr

            Road inundated and impassable at the
            junction of Cuff and Beaverdam Roads.

&&

JAB

Local storm report, Feb 15, 2:00 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Memphis TN
200 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

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

0133 PM     Flash Flood      4 WNW Springville       36.27N 88.22W
02/15/2025                   Henry              TN   911 Call Center

            ROAD WASHED OUT BETWEEN 4630 AND 4709 CLIFTY
            RD.

&&

Special weather statement, Feb 15, 4:50 PM CST, 20 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Memphis TN
450 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

ARZ027-035-036-048-152315-
Poinsett AR-St. Francis AR-Cross AR-Crittenden AR-
450 PM CST Sat Feb 15 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN ST. FRANCIS...
SOUTHEASTERN POINSETT...NORTHWESTERN CRITTENDEN AND CROSS COUNTIES
THROUGH 515 PM CST...

At 450 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hickory Ridge, or 11 miles northwest of Wynne, moving east at 50 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Wynne, Trumann, Earle, Harrisburg, Parkin, Cherry Valley, Colt,
Hickory Ridge, Fair Oaks, Vanndale, Fisher, Three Forks, Payneway,
Fitzgerald Crossing, Weona Junction, Brushy Lake, McElroy, Promised
Land, Bay Village, and Coldwater.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CST for eastern
Arkansas.

&&

LAT...LON 3549 9104 3569 9056 3536 9033 3500 9105
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 256DEG 45KT 3532 9095

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Schlessiger

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 15, 2:28 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson and 6 more	14 hr
Feb 15, 6:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	10 hr
Feb 15, 6:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	3 days
Feb 15, 6:36 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	3 hr
Feb 15, 8:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	7 hr
Feb 15, 8:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton	7 hr
Feb 15, 9:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry and 4 more	9 hr
Feb 15, 11:20 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Madison and 2 more	5 hr
Feb 15, 5:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	51 min
Feb 15, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Lauderdale	45 min
Feb 15, 5:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	44 min
Feb 15, 5:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	3 hr
Feb 15, 5:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tunica	28 min
Feb 15, 1:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	2 hr
Feb 15, 4:50 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	25 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.