A powerful upper level low pressure system brought snow to portions of Northeast Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel, West Tennessee and extreme north Mississippi. Most areas picked up between 1 and 3 inches of with areas of Northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel receiving between 4 and 6 inches of snow.
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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.
A powerful upper level low pressure system brought snow to portions of Northeast Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel, West Tennessee and extreme north Mississippi. Most areas picked up between 1 and 3 inches of with areas of Northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel receiving between 4 and 6 inches of snow.
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 Nov 28, 11:38 AM CST, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 228 PM CST MON NOV 28 2011 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-292230- 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- 228 PM CST MON NOV 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A DEEP UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH THIS AFTERNOON TONIGHT. MAINLY RAIN IS THIS AFTERNOON... BUT RAIN WILL MIX WITH AND POSSIBLY CHANGE TO SNOW OVER MUCH OF THE MIDSOUTH THIS EVENING. A WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN WEST TENNESSEE AND MOST OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...INCLUDING TUPELO AND CORINTH. THREE INCHES OF SNOW OR MORE IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SURROUNDS THE WATCH AREA AND INCLUDES MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE MIDSOUTH INCLUDING KENNETT... PARAGOULD...MEMPHIS...JACKSON...DYERSBURG...JONESBORO...AND OXFORD. ONE TO THREE INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE UPPER LOW WILL PULL AWAY TUESDAY AND PRECIPITATION WILL TAPER OFF DURING THE MORNING HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JDS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Between 4 and 6 inches of snow fell in Dunklin County.
Between 3 and 6 inches of snow fell in Pemiscot County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, November 2011
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 354673, 354674.