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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Memphis, TN

March 27, 202618 counties in Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this red flag warning at Mar 27, 2026, 11:31 AM CDT for 18 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 28, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. 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 27, 2026, 11:31 AM CDT (16:31 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 28, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 28, 2026, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN

Counties Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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 nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 27, 6:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 6:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 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 26, 10:38 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi	21 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Mississippi, 2026 Every red flag warning in 2026

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.