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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2026, 3:54 PM CDT for 5 counties in Arkansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 22, 2026, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2026, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Craighead County, AR, Crittenden County, AR, Cross County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Poinsett County, AR
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 334 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
- 1982 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Shelby, Tipton | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 5:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 90 min |
| Aug 22, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | McNairy | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Fayette | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardin, McNairy | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Hardeman, Hardin, McNairy | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica | 41 min |
| Aug 22, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Yalobusha | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 2:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Craighead | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Poinsett | 39 min |
| Aug 22, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Cross, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Poinsett | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Mississippi | 37 min |
| Aug 22, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, St. Francis | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Lee | 35 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.