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Storm reports for March 27, 2021

NOAA recorded 166 hail reports, 122 wind reports and 20 tornado reports in 13 states on March 27, 2021.

in 13 states
308
Storm reports
About 19 miles from Little Rock, AR
3.0 in
Largest hail
About 28 miles from Memphis, TN
100 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF2, about 44 miles from Tyler, TX
20
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path
  • Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 27, 2021 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

An EF2 tornado with winds near 125 mph tracked about 16 miles across southern Panola County, Texas, south of Carthage, starting at about 6:38 p.m. CST on March 27, 2021.1 It damaged homes and destroyed metal outbuildings and a manufactured home, and a tree it uprooted fell on another manufactured home, killing 1 person.1 NOAA's Storm Events Database lists 3 injuries and $1.5 million in property damage from this tornado.1

Between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. CDT, hail up to 3 inches across fell at South Bend in Lonoke County, Arkansas, and baseball-size hail broke windows in Gurdon in Clark County.2,3 Around 12:30 p.m. EST, hail larger than golf balls damaged numerous cars and several roofs around Hillsville, Virginia, where the Storm Events Database lists $1 million in property damage.4

Parts of southern and eastern metro Nashville got 7 to 9 inches of rain, and NWS Nashville reports that the flash flooding flooded more than 500 homes and businesses across Middle Tennessee and left I-24 and I-40 impassable.5 NOAA's Storm Events Database lists 5 deaths and $20 million in property damage from the flash flood in Davidson County.6

Sources

  1. 1. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 941492, tornado, Panola County, Texas
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948979, hail, Lonoke County, Arkansas
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 948977, hail, Clark County, Arkansas
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 949578, hail, Carroll County, Virginia
  5. 5. NWS Nashville: March 27-28, 2021 Flash Flooding
  6. 6. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 951956, flash flood, Davidson County, Tennessee

Reports by hour

Hail166, most at 5 PM

Wind122, most at 7 PM

Tornado20, most at 6 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
4:38 PMEF1Near 35.53, -88.53, TN2.97 mi long, 300 yd wide
4:54 PMEF0Near 35.55, -88.37, TN0.57 mi long, 50 yd wide
5:12 PMEF0Near 35.55, -88.06, TN0.48 mi long, 75 yd wide
6:01 PMEF0About 33 miles from Memphis, TN0.68 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:06 PMEF2About 44 miles from Tyler, TX20.53 mi long, 500 yd wide
6:11 PMEF0About 32 miles from Memphis, TN1.09 mi long, 80 yd wide
6:16 PMEF0About 40 miles from Memphis, TN0.48 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:21 PMEF1About 34 miles from Memphis, TN3.9 mi long, 100 yd wide
6:37 PMEF1About 38 miles from Memphis, TN4.93 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:58 PMEF2About 43 miles from Longview, TX22.29 mi long, 300 yd wide
7:08 PMEF1About 26 miles from St. Louis, MO5.29 mi long, 700 yd wide
7:38 PMEF2About 39 miles from Longview, TX15.84 mi long, 1600 yd wide
Show all 20 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
8:08 PMEF1About 23 miles from Shreveport, LA3.5 mi long, 480 yd wide
8:22 PMEF1About 16 miles from Shreveport, LA11.97 mi long, 675 yd wide
8:23 PMEF2About 60 miles from Little Rock, AR18.56 mi long, 600 yd wide
10:22 PMEF2Near 33.67, -91.81, AR1.6 mi long, 400 yd wide
10:45 PMEF1About 29 miles from Memphis, TN2.04 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:26 PMEF0Near 33.85, -91.03, MS0.44 mi long, 35 yd wide
11:46 PMEF2Near 33.94, -90.75, MS2.91 mi long, 50 yd wide
5:38 AMEF1About 35 miles from Huntsville, AL2.11 mi long, 100 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Tennessee7554183
Alabama449341
Arkansas4423147
North Carolina382990
Mississippi252203
Virginia231850
Illinois197111
Indiana131030
Louisiana7232
Missouri7520
Texas6123
Ohio4310
Kentucky3300

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Little Rock, AR1.75 inNone0
Greensboro, NC1.5 in58 mph0
Birmingham, AL1.0 in69 mph0
Cincinnati, OH1.0 in52 mph0
Durham, NC1.0 in58 mph0
Fayetteville, NC1.0 inNone0
Indianapolis, IN1.0 in69 mph0
Kingsport, TN1.0 in60 mph0
Knoxville, TN1.0 inNone0
Raleigh, NC1.0 in58 mph0
St. Louis, MO1.0 inNone0
Winston-Salem, NC1.0 inNone0
Fayetteville, AR0.88 inNone0
Asheville, NC0.75 inNone0
Shreveport, LA0.75 in70 mph0
Huntsville, ALNone60 mph0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.