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River Flood Warning 10, NWS Memphis, TN

January 12, 2013Calhoun County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Jan 12, 2013, 3:42 PM CST for Calhoun County, Mississippi. It took effect at Jan 13, 2013, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 12, 2013, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 13, 2013, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 13, 2013, 11:43 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity
Minor

County Calhoun County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 Skuna River at Bruce (BRCM6).

Action stage
30 ft
Minor stage
31 ft
Moderate stage
34 ft
Major stage
38 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07283000, 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 12, 12:38 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 12:38 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 4:57 AM CST, 10 hours 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
457 AM CST SAT JAN 12 2013

ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-
MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-131300-
ALCORN-BENTON MS-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA-
CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR-DUNKLIN-DYER-
FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY-
ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE AR-LEE MS-MADISON-
MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-
PHILLIPS-POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-
ST. FRANCIS-TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-
UNION-WEAKLEY-YALOBUSHA-
457 AM CST SAT JAN 12 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS...
THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA...GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
DYERSBURG TO MEMPHIS TO CLARKSDALE, MS. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
THE PREDOMINANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH A POTENTIAL FOR PERHAPS
A TORNADO.

ADDITIONALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE MIDSOUTH FROM NOON TODAY
THROUGH NOON SUNDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING SUNDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS
IN EFFECT THROUGH NOON SUNDAY.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY MORNINGS...RAIN COULD SWITCH OVER TO FREEZING
RAIN...SLEET OR SNOW OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...WEST
TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. HOWEVER...PRECIPITATION WILL
CHANGE BACK TO RAIN EACH DAY AS TEMPERATURES WARM. NO
ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO
SATURDAY EVENING IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 12, 3:37 PM CST, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
337 PM CST SAT JAN 12 2013

ARZ008-009-017-122215-
CLAY AR-LAWRENCE AR-RANDOLPH AR-
337 PM CST SAT JAN 12 2013

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEMPHIS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 415 PM CST FOR...

  NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH WAS LOCATED 4
MILES SOUTH OF ANNIEVILLE AT 337 PM CST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

PEOPLE IN CLAY...LAWRENCE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES...INCLUDING LOCATIONS
NEAR BLACK ROCK...HOXIE...LAKE CHARLES STATE PARK...POCAHONTAS AND
WALNUT RIDGE...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3621 9136 3626 9132 3625 9127 3631 9127
      3651 9108 3650 9059 3588 9111 3588 9136
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 227DEG 46KT 3612 9123

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 11, 10:23 PM CSTFlash Flood WatchMEGCarroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 14 more37 hr
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGTallahatchie49 hr
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGLafayette, Marshall, Union49 hr
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGCalhoun25 hr
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGMonroe7 days
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGMonroe5 days
Jan 12, 10:17 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGLowndes, Monroe9 days
Jan 12, 3:37 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMEGLawrence, Randolph38 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2013Every river flood warning in 2013

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.