Afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms developed over West Tennessee on June 30, 2007 due to daytime heating. Some of the thunderstorms became severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
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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 episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
Afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms developed over West Tennessee on June 30, 2007 due to daytime heating. Some of the thunderstorms became severe producing large hail and damaging winds.
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 Jun 30, 2:12 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 312 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 .DISCUSSION... ANOTHER AFTERNOON WITH MODERATE ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY AND WEAK SHEAR. EXPECT ISOLATED PULSE SEVERE THREAT TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON...MAINLY OVER NORTHERN MS. ONCE SURFACE TEMPS BEGIN TO WANE IN THE LOWER SUN ANGLES... EXPECT STORM COVERAGE TO DECREASE EARLY IN THE EVENING. SEVERE THREAT REMAINS MORE FOCUSED WELL WEST OF THE MIDSOUTH...AHEAD OF A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHERN OK. THIS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SHOULD NOT AFFECT THE MIDSOUTH AND SHOULD REMAIN NEAR ITS CURRENT POSITION. PROSPECTS FOR A NEAR TERM FRONTAL PASSAGE INTO THE MIDSOUTH APPEAR SLIM...GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE OK SURFACE LOW AND THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST. GOES WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED A BROAD UPPER LOW JUST WEST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA...LIFTING NORTHEAST. GFS APPEARS TO NOT HAVE INITIALIZED THIS LOW VERY WELL. SUSPECT THIS FEATURE WILL SUFFICIENTLY WEAKEN THE UPPER RIDGE TOMORROW TO RESULT IN SCATTERED STORMS OVER THE MIDSOUTH AND MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST. THIS APPEARS TO ALREADY BE OCCURRING TODAY...WITH ENERGY EJECTING NORTH FROM THE BROAD UPPER LOW... INTO THE LOWER MS RIVER VALLEY. THE GFS IS STILL INTENT ON DROPPING A COLD FRONT INTO THE MIDSOUTH TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK. ECMWF MODEL CONCURS TO A SMALL EXTENT. IN ANY CASE...EXPECT THE IMPACT OF A FRONTAL PASSAGE TO BE LIMITED TO A SLIGHT BUMP IN RAIN CHANCES...AS TEMPS REMAIN NEAR SEASONAL NORMS. OVERALL...TYPICAL EARLY TO MID SUMMER WEATHER FOR THE MIDSOUTH. PWB && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MEM 73 87 72 89 / 40 50 30 10 MKL 67 86 65 89 / 40 40 10 10 JBR 71 84 67 89 / 40 50 20 10 TUP 72 89 68 89 / 40 50 20 20 && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 409 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-011100- 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- 409 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE MIDSOUTH THIS AFTERNOON. ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY WILL BE GREATEST OVER AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI MAY BRIEFLY EXCEED SEVERE LIMITS. DAMAGING STRAIT LINE WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE MIDSOUTH TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PART OF THE MID SOUTH SUNDAY...SOUTH OF A JONESBORO ARKANSAS TO JACKSON TENNESSEE LINE...MAINLY BETWEEN 11 AM AND 8 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES...WINDS GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON... MAINLY TO THE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. PWB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 304 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ARZ036-048-302030- ST. FRANCIS AR-CRITTENDEN AR- 304 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...CRITTENDEN AND ST. FRANCIS COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF SIMSBORO AT 304 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN AND ST. FRANCIS COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 MSZ017-302045- ITAWAMBA MS- 314 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...ITAWAMBA COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EVERGREEN AT 314 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN ITAWAMBA COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT. .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALERT AREA.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 317 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 TNZ089-302045- FAYETTE TN- 317 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...FAYETTE COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAGRANGE AT 317 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN FAYETTE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
329 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0245 PM HAIL BATESVILLE 34.32N 89.94W
06/30/2007 E0.75 INCH PANOLA MS PUBLIC
PENNY SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN BATESVILLE
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MRMSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 341 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ARZ036-302115- CRITTENDEN AR- 341 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...CRITTENDEN COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TURRELL AT 341 PM CDT... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN CRITTENDEN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF TURRELL...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 413 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 MSZ001-302200- DE SOTO MS- 413 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...DESOTO COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER OLIVE BRANCH AT 413 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN DESOTO COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HERNANDO...HORN LAKE...OLIVE BRANCH AND SOUTHAVEN...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY..
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Straight line winds knocked trees down on Davies Plantation Road in Lakeland.
Straight line winds knocked trees down on Yale Road in Bartlett.
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: 41758, 41759, 41760.