Scattered thunderstorms developed within an unstable airmass during the afternoon hours of October 2, 2014. A few of these storms contained large hail and damaging winds across extreme Northwest Mississippi.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Scattered thunderstorms developed within an unstable airmass during the afternoon hours of October 2, 2014. A few of these storms contained large hail and damaging winds across extreme Northwest Mississippi. Later that evening a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through ahead of an approaching cold front. There were several reports of damaging winds across North Mississippi.
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 Oct 2, 11:51 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 305 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-031200- ALCORN-BENTON MS-BENTON TN-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- 305 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014 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 TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. BY TONIGHT...A SQUALL LINE WILL PUSH IN FROM THE WEST. THE LINE IS EXPECTED TO BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT AND LARGE HAIL BEING A SECONDARY THREAT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS FOR EASTERN ARKANSAS...THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WESTERN TENNESSEE. THE LINE WILL IMPACT EASTERN ARKANSAS AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL BETWEEN 7 PM CST AND MIDNIGHT CST. NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND EXTREME WEST TENNESSEE...INCLUDING THE MEMPHIS AREA...WILL BE AFFECTED BETWEEN 10 PM CST TO 2 AM CST. THE LINE IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST OF THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. SJM
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
248 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014
MSZ007-008-011-012-022015-
TUNICA MS-TATE MS-QUITMAN MS-PANOLA MS-
248 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR...
NORTHWESTERN PANOLA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHWESTERN TATE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHEASTERN TUNICA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH
WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF DARLING AT 248 PM CDT...MOVING NORTH AT
35 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
PEOPLE IN PANOLA...QUITMAN...TATE AND TUNICA COUNTIES SHOULD MONITOR
THIS STORM CLOSELY. THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT ALSO INCLUDES
ARKABUTLA LAKE AND BEAVERDAM LAKE.
&&
LAT...LON 3464 9034 3455 8998 3419 9020 3426 9040
3435 9040
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 200DEG 32KT 3432 9028The Memphis radar (KNQA), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:45 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter measured at 63 mph gust. Large tree limbs were knocked down in the Nesbit area. Church Road was blocked by numerous large limbs.
Straight line winds caused damaged throughout Tunica County. There was damage to a mobile home and minor damage to a farm shop. Two houses were also damaged.
Straight line winds caused minor roof damage at the Strayhorn Elementary School along Highway 4. Trees and large limbs were knocked down along Highway 4 in the western part of Tate County.
Straight line winds knocked large trees down blocking County Road 59 near Highway 30 west of New Albany. Trees were also reported down in Blue Springs.
Straight line winds knocked a large tree on to a house in Sherman.
Straight line winds knocked down trees along County Road 1766.
Straight line winds knocked down trees across Mantachie.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, October 2014
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 544610, 544611, 545219, 545220, 545222, 545223, 545224, 545225.