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River Flood Warning 28, NWS Memphis, TN

March 19, 2008Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Lee County, Mississippi County, Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 19, 2008, 11:09 PM CDT for Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Lee County, Mississippi County, Phillips County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 27 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2008, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 25, 2008, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Lee County, AR, Mississippi County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Helena (HEEA4).

Action stage: 40 ft
Minor stage: 44 ft
Moderate stage: 50 ft
Major stage: 55 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 19, 9:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 9:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 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 20, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	59 hr
Mar 20, 2:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay	58 min
Mar 20, 3:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2008 River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.