1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 5, 8:22 PM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 822 PM CST SUN MAR 5 2006 .DISCUSSION... RADAR COVERAGE MORE WIDESPREAD THAN EXPECTED SO UPDATED FORECAST ACROSS NORTH MS TO UP POPS FOR THIS EVENING. TRENDS SHOW RAIN SHOULD BE OUT OF THE REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT. WILL LIKELY HAVE ONE MORE UPDATE TO REMOVE EVENING WORDING. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES HAVE RESULTED IN A FAIR AMOUNT OF LIGHTING THIS EVENING. NOT ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER. NO CHANGES MADE TO TEMPS OR SKY COVER. && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. && VALLE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 441 AM CST SUN MAR 5 2006 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-061100- ALCORN-BENTON(MS)-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)- MADISON-MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT- PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY- ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA- UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA- 441 AM CST SUN MAR 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH TOWARD THE MIDDLE AND END OF THIS WEEK. STRONG SOUTH WINDS WILL PUSH MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE AREA. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PLAINS SATURDAY. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MID-SOUTH AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS FOR THE MIDDLE AND END OF THIS WEEK AS WE MOVE INTO THE SEVERE WEATHER SEASON. JCL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A guest house was destroyed by fire caused by a lightning strike near Mt. Evergreen(Toenail) Cemetery near Iuka.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5496587.