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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Memphis, TN

February 5, 2014Madison County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 5, 2014, 9:40 AM CST for Madison County, Tennessee. It was in force for 59 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2014, 9:40 AM CST (15:40 UTC)
Expired: Feb 7, 2014, 8:25 PM CST
In force: 59 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Flood severity: Minor

County Madison County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point South Fork Forked Deer River at Jackson (JKNT1).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 34 ft
Moderate stage: 37.5 ft
Major stage: 39 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 Feb 5, 5:47 AM CST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 5:47 AM CST, 3 hours 53 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
Feb 4, 6:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy, Madison	4 hr
Feb 4, 8:29 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Lauderdale	9 days
Feb 4, 8:35 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	26 hr
Feb 4, 8:37 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	3 days
Feb 4, 8:38 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	11 hr
Feb 4, 8:39 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	10 hr
Feb 5, 3:22 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Obion	19 hr
Feb 4, 9:40 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tate, Tunica	19 hr
Feb 4, 9:41 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	9 hr
Feb 4, 9:46 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	23 hr
Feb 5, 12:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	9 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.