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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Memphis, TN

March 31, 2025Alcorn County, Prentiss County, Tishomingo County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2025, 1:58 AM CDT for Alcorn County, Prentiss County, Tishomingo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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: Mar 31, 2025, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Alcorn County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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
Mar 30, 11:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 2351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 16.2

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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 Mar 31, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 31, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 1:16 AM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 1:44 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 1:52 AM CDT, 6 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
Mar 30, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Lake	38 min
Mar 30, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion, Weakley	45 min
Mar 30, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lauderdale, Tipton	46 min
Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tipton	52 min
Mar 30, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton	44 min
Mar 30, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Shelby, Tipton	39 min
Mar 30, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	44 min
Mar 30, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Henderson and 1 more	46 min
Mar 30, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry	53 min
Mar 30, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby, Tipton	47 min
Mar 30, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Haywood, Henderson, Madison	48 min
Mar 30, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman, Shelby	42 min
Mar 30, 10:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	4 hr
Mar 30, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Decatur, Henderson, Madison	50 min
Mar 30, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, McNairy, Madison	40 min
Mar 30, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy, Madison	46 min
Mar 30, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	60 min
Mar 31, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy	44 min
Mar 31, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Hardin	45 min
Mar 31, 2:30 PM CDT	Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	6 days
Mar 30, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tunica	49 min
Mar 30, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate, Tunica	47 min
Mar 30, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Tippah	38 min
Mar 30, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	DeSoto, Tate	48 min
Mar 31, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	45 min
Mar 31, 2:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn	118 min
Mar 31, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	26 min
Mar 31, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	50 min
Mar 31, 4:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	52 min
Mar 31, 5:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	26 min
Mar 31, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	65 min
Mar 31, 5:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	19 min
Mar 30, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene	38 min
Mar 30, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	43 min
Mar 30, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	45 min
Mar 30, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	29 min
Mar 30, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	St. Francis	42 min
Mar 30, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Crittenden, Lee, St. Francis	37 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.