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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Memphis, TN

March 10, 2015Dyer County, Lake County, Lauderdale County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 10, 2015, 2:23 PM CDT for Dyer County, Lake County, Lauderdale County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 14, 2015, 4:59 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2015, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2015, 4:59 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 31, 2015, 11:38 AM CDT
In force: 17 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Mississippi County, AR, Dyer County, TN, Lake County, TN, Lauderdale County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Caruthersville (CRTM7).

Action stage: 29 ft
Minor stage: 32 ft
Moderate stage: 41 ft
Major stage: 43 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 10, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 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 10, 2:35 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	DeSoto	6 days
Mar 10, 2:37 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Tunica	45 hr
Mar 10, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	14 hr
Mar 10, 11:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	7 days
Mar 10, 11:19 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	47 hr
Mar 10, 11:19 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	47 hr
Mar 10, 11:22 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Perry	4 days
Mar 10, 2:27 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	12 days
Mar 10, 2:31 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Lake	44 hr
Mar 10, 11:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	11 days
Mar 10, 11:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead	10 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2015 River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.