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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Memphis, TN

January 20, 2010Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 20, 2010, 10:08 AM CST for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It took effect at Jan 21, 2010, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 32 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 20, 2010, 10:08 AM CST (16:08 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 21, 2010, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 22, 2010, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 32 days
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 16:07 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 Tallahatchie River near Swan Lake (SWNM6).

Action stage: 25 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 33 ft
Major stage: 37 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 Jan 20, 9:26 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 9:26 AM CST, 42 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
Jan 20, 4:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more	24 hr
Jan 20, 12:21 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Henderson	114 min
Jan 20, 9:43 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	46 hr
Jan 20, 9:43 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	46 hr
Jan 20, 9:43 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	35 hr
Jan 20, 10:08 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	33 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.