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River Flood Warning 63, NWS Memphis, TN

April 29, 2013Crockett County, Dyer County, Lauderdale County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 29, 2013, 9:35 AM CDT for Crockett County, Dyer County, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. It took effect at May 3, 2013, 9:34 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2013, 9:35 AM CDT (14:35 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2013, 9:34 PM CDT
Expired: May 6, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Crockett County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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 South Fork Forked Deer River near Halls (HLST1).

Action stage: 8.5 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 13.5 ft
Major stage: 16 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 Apr 28, 5:53 PM CDT, 15 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 5:53 PM CDT, 15 hours 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
Apr 28, 8:45 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Hardin	36 hr
Apr 28, 8:45 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Perry	36 hr
Apr 29, 5:23 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MEG	Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Gibson and 8 more	4 hr
Apr 29, 7:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	9 days
Apr 29, 7:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	14 hr
Apr 29, 9:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2013 Every 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.