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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Memphis, TN

March 3, 2015Dyer County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 3, 2015, 10:17 AM CST for Dyer County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 4, 2015, 11:08 PM CST. It was in force for 46 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2015, 10:17 AM CST (16:17 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 4, 2015, 11:08 PM CST
Expired: Mar 6, 2015, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 46 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dyer County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point North Fork Forked Deer River at Dyersburg (DYET1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 26.5 ft
Major stage: 29 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 Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST, 32 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
Mar 3, 2:08 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more	57 hr
Mar 3, 4:02 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more	8 hr
Mar 3, 2:07 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Lake and 2 more	33 hr
Mar 3, 10:17 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	9 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.