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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2026, 12:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 45 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 9, 2026, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2026, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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, Lee County, AR, St. Francis County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 311 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 9, 6:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 6:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 9, 1:11 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MEG | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Shelby | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 1:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette, Hardeman | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, McNairy, Shelby | 30 min |
| Mar 9, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Hardeman | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 22 min |
| Mar 9, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tate | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tate | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Prentiss | 23 min |
| Mar 9, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lafayette | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Chickasaw | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union | 51 min |
| Mar 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Itawamba | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Tallahatchie | 29 min |
| Mar 9, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Lafayette | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Union | 118 min |
| Mar 9, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee, Prentiss | 108 min |
| Mar 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Lafayette | 100 min |
| Mar 9, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Mar 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc | 45 min |
| Mar 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 70 min |
| Mar 9, 5:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union | 68 min |
| Mar 9, 5:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 61 min |
| Mar 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 12:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Cross, Lee, St. Francis | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Phillips | 30 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.