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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Memphis, TN

March 4, 2008Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 4, 2008, 12:42 PM CST for Madison County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 4, 2008, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2008, 12:42 PM CST (18:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 4, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 8, 2008, 10:27 AM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

County Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point South Fork Forked Deer River at Jackson (JKNT1).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 34 ft
Moderate stage: 37.5 ft
Major stage: 39 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, 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 this river flood warning went out at Mar 4, 12:27 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 12:27 PM CST, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 12:05 PM CST, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 4, 7:53 AM CST, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 4, 8:31 AM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman	38 min
Mar 3, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton	44 min
Mar 3, 7:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola	117 min
Mar 3, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Union	45 min
Mar 3, 10:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	14 hr
Mar 3, 10:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	7 days
Mar 3, 10:23 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer	14 hr
Mar 3, 10:26 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Lauderdale	9 days
Mar 3, 9:11 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett and 1 more	7 hr
Mar 3, 10:11 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead	14 hr
Mar 4, 4:18 AM CST	Snow Advisory	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 5 more	10 hr
Mar 4, 10:43 AM CST	Heavy Snow Warning	MEG	Lawrence, Randolph	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.