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River Flood Warning 72, NWS Memphis, TN

October 29, 2009Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Oct 29, 2009, 10:16 PM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It took effect at Oct 31, 2009, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 29, 2009, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 31, 2009, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Nov 1, 2009, 10:29 AM CST
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tallahatchie River at Locopolis (LOGM6).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 33 ft
Moderate stage: 35.5 ft
Major stage: 38 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 Oct 29, 8:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 8:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 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
Oct 29, 10:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	37 hr
Oct 29, 10:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	61 hr
Oct 30, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Coahoma, DeSoto, Tunica	12 hr
Oct 30, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	24 hr
Oct 30, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	5 days
Oct 30, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Tippah, Union	35 min
Oct 30, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Pontotoc, Tippah, Union	30 min
Oct 30, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc, Union	27 min
Oct 30, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Monroe	39 min
Oct 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	43 min
Oct 30, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	39 min
Oct 29, 10:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Lauderdale	36 hr
Oct 30, 2:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Tipton	12 hr
Oct 30, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	37 min
Oct 30, 11:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	5 days
Oct 30, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	29 min
Oct 30, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur	2 hr
Oct 29, 8:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Randolph	4 hr
Oct 29, 9:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	3 days
Oct 29, 9:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	38 hr
Oct 29, 9:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	8 days
Oct 29, 10:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead	60 hr
Oct 30, 1:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Lawrence, Lee and 3 more	11 hr

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.