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River Flood Warning 46, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 4, 2008, 9:31 AM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It took effect at Apr 4, 2008, 11:55 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2008, 9:31 AM CDT (14:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 4, 2008, 11:55 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2008, 10:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Monroe County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The river
Written for the forecast point Tombigbee River near Amory (AMYM6).
- Action stage
- 19 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 33 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02437000, 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 Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 14 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:59 PM CDT, 14 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tunica | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 23 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 48 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie | 49 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 9:42 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 22 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 20 hr |
| Apr 3, 8:46 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 7 days |
| Apr 3, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Obion | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 1:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Dyer | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Madison | 4 days |
| Apr 4, 10:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Fayette, Shelby | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 53 min |
| Apr 3, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 11:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Craighead, Lawrence, Poinsett | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 64 min |
| Apr 4, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett | 38 min |
Nearby
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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.