Mississippi, 2023

Hail in Mississippi, June 6, 2023

June 6, 2023 · NWS MEG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Isolated strong to severe storms developed along a surface convergence axis across north Mississippi during the late afternoon of June 6, 2023. Moderate instability combined with weak shear produced a pulse severe storm with large hail in DeSoto County.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.

Isolated strong to severe storms developed along a surface convergence axis across north Mississippi during the late afternoon of June 6, 2023. Moderate instability combined with weak shear produced a pulse severe storm with large hail in DeSoto County.

What forecasters said that day

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 5, 5:27 PM CST, 21 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 5:27 PM CST, 21 hours before
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The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, De Soto

When
June 6, 2:27 PM CST to 2:32 PM CST
Where
De Soto County, 1.55 mi SE of Mineral Wells
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
34.964, -89.850

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Mississippi in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, June 2023

Sources

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: 1112022.