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River Flood Warning 82, NWS Memphis, TN

May 22, 2013Quitman County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 22, 2013, 10:03 AM CDT for Quitman County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2013, 10:03 AM CDT (15:03 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 23, 2013, 8:53 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

County Quitman County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Coldwater River at Marks (MKSM6).

Action stage: 35 ft
Minor stage: 39 ft
Moderate stage: 41 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07275950, 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 22, 6:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 9:39 AM CDT, 24 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
May 21, 9:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Lauderdale	22 hr
May 21, 9:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	22 hr
May 22, 11:49 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	47 hr
May 21, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Panola	3 hr
May 21, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	25 min
May 21, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	48 min
May 21, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	3 hr
May 21, 8:44 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	36 hr
May 21, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	43 min
May 21, 9:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Panola, Yalobusha	3 hr
May 21, 9:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tate, Tunica	23 hr
May 22, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Prentiss, Tishomingo	50 min
May 22, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Monroe	39 min
May 22, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	32 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.