Alert archive / Mississippi / River Flood Warnings in 2009

River Flood Warning 30, NWS Memphis, TN

May 2, 2009Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 2, 2009, 9:39 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 3, 2009, 11:09 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2009, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2009, 11:09 AM CDT
Expired: May 3, 2009, 9:10 PM CDT
In force: 10 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 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 at Bigbee (BGBM6). The gauge peaked at 10.24 ft at May 4, 2009, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02433500, 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 May 2, 9:32 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 9:32 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 6:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 4:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
405 PM CDT SAT MAY 02 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0150 PM     TORNADO          5 WNW MANTACHIE         34.34N 88.57W
05/02/2009                   LEE                MS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            A POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 1451 NEAR
            EGGVILLE. A FEW POWERLINES AND TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN. A
            COUPLE OF ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES WERE TOSSED AROUND. TREES
            FELL ON 5 HOUSES. 1 INJURY.

0200 PM     TORNADO          2 N MANTACHIE           34.35N 88.49W
05/02/2009                   ITAWAMBA           MS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MOTORIST REPORTED TORNADO ON HWY 363 A FEW TREES DOWN

0200 PM     TORNADO          MANTACHIE               34.32N 88.49W
05/02/2009                   ITAWAMBA           MS   TRAINED SPOTTER

             TORNADO CAUSED SEVERAL LARGE OAK TREES TO FALL. CEDAR
            TREES BROKEN. SHED DEMOLISHED.ALL AT 524 MANTACHIE CREEK
            ROAD OFF HWY 371

&&

MRM

Special weather statement, May 2, 4:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
429 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 2009

MSZ024-022215-
MONROE MS-
429 PM CDT SAT MAY 2 2009

...THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR...

  SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50
MPH WINDS WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BINFORD AT 429 PM CDT...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY.

PEOPLE IN MONROE COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY THIS
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT.

.A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALERT AREA.

Local storm report, May 2, 7:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, May 2, 7:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, May 2, 7:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, May 2, 9:06 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tate, Tunica	16 hr
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	16 hr
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	24 hr
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	24 hr
May 2, 9:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	24 hr
May 2, 11:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica and 1 more	12 hr
May 3, 10:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	8 days
May 3, 10:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate and 2 more	8 hr
May 3, 10:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Perry	9 days
May 3, 4:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur	6 hr
May 3, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 3 more	6 hr
May 3, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy	4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.