The severe weather pattern that targeted northeastern Oklahoma on Sunday has pushed east into the mid-South, with the National Weather Service issuing active warnings and watches Monday morning across a broad corridor from east Texas through the Memphis metropolitan area.
At 9:32 a.m. CDT, the National Weather Service confirmed a severe thunderstorm over downtown Memphis — 8 miles northeast of T.O. Fuller State Park — moving northeast at 50 mph. The primary threat: wind gusts of 60 mph capable of damaging roofs, siding, and trees. The warning covers the western Tennessee suburbs and adjoining Arkansas communities, including Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Millington, Southaven, Olive Branch, West Memphis, and Marion. Residents in Memphis weather should expect the cell to clear quickly given its forward speed.
Separately, Severe Thunderstorm Watch 373, issued by the Storm Prediction Center, remained valid until 11 a.m. CDT Monday for a nine-county and parish footprint across three states: four counties in southwest and south-central Arkansas — Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, and Union — and five parishes in northwest and north-central Louisiana, including Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Union, and Webster. East Texas counties in the watch zone include Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Red River, Titus, Upshur, and Wood.
The geographic spread — from the Texas-Louisiana border northeast through the Tennessee side of the Mississippi River — reflects how rapidly this system has progressed. Sunday’s confirmed storm hit Pearsonia in northeastern Osage County, Oklahoma, moving east at 30 mph with 60 mph gusts and penny-size hail. Monday’s Memphis-area warning carries the same wind threshold but does not list hail as a primary hazard, a distinction the National Weather Service noted in its alert.
For communities under the watch, the National Weather Service advised moving to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building during active storms. A watch indicates conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorm development; a warning means one is occurring or imminent.
Residents in the northwest Louisiana parishes at the core of the watch zone — Caddo and Bossier — can track evolving conditions through Shreveport weather. The National Weather Service will reassess the watch boundary as the morning progresses and the system continues its northeast track.
All storm data is radar-indicated and sourced from the National Weather Service.