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Special Weather Statement, NWS Memphis, TN

April 3, 2025Lee County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2025, 8:21 PM CDT for Lee County, Arkansas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2025, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2025, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Lee County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 634 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.3

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 3, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:22 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 7:23 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:37 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:17 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:21 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
Apr 3, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette	37 min
Apr 3, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Haywood, Madison	51 min
Apr 3, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	49 min
Apr 3, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Gibson and 2 more	51 min
Apr 3, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake	18 min
Apr 3, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson	20 min
Apr 3, 9:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Hardeman	7 days
Apr 3, 11:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	4 days
Apr 3, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lauderdale	38 min
Apr 4, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Obion	78 min
Apr 4, 12:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Henry	24 min
Apr 4, 12:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	24 days
Apr 4, 12:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	22 days
Apr 4, 12:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lake	21 days
Apr 4, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	39 min
Apr 4, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Hardeman	47 min
Apr 4, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chester, Hardeman, McNairy	11 min
Apr 3, 10:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	6 days
Apr 4, 10:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	3 days
Apr 4, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	6 days
Apr 4, 11:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	57 hr
Apr 4, 11:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	4 days
Apr 4, 11:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	4 days
Apr 4, 12:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	17 days
Apr 3, 7:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Clay, Greene	14 min
Apr 3, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	28 min
Apr 3, 7:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	3 hr
Apr 3, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	49 min
Apr 3, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Greene	13 min
Apr 3, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	30 min
Apr 3, 9:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	24 days
Apr 3, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	31 min
Apr 3, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden	24 min
Apr 3, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Poinsett	24 min
Apr 3, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Cross	35 min
Apr 3, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead	31 min
Apr 3, 10:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett	3 hr
Apr 4, 1:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lee	41 min
Apr 4, 7:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Clay	3 hr
Apr 3, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Pemiscot	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.