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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 18, 2015, 1:31 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 18, 2015, 7:36 PM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2015, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2015, 7:36 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 19, 2015, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Monroe County, MS
The river
Written for the forecast point Tombigbee River near Amory (AMYM6). The gauge peaked at 16.77 ft at May 18, 2015, 2:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 19 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 33 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02437000, 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 18, 1:18 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 1:18 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 17, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| May 18, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 3 hr |
| May 18, 12:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate | 3 hr |
| May 18, 7:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 19 hr |
| May 18, 1:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 45 hr |
| May 18, 1:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Union | 18 hr |
| May 17, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Clay, Greene | 40 min |
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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.