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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Memphis, TN

February 19, 2018Lauderdale County, Tipton County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 19, 2018, 11:24 AM CST for Lauderdale County, Tipton County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 24, 2018, 7:30 AM CST. It was in force for 24 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 2018, 11:24 AM CST (17:24 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2018, 7:30 AM CST
Expired: Mar 20, 2018, 7:59 PM CDT
In force: 24 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Mississippi County, AR, Lauderdale County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Osceola (OSGA4).

Action stage: 24 ft
Minor stage: 28 ft
Moderate stage: 31 ft
Major stage: 35 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 19, 10:33 AM CST, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 10:33 AM CST, 51 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 19, 11:24 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	28 days
Feb 19, 11:44 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	3 days
Feb 19, 3:25 PM CST	Flood Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	5 days
Feb 19, 11:44 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Tunica	25 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2018 River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2018 Every river flood warning in 2018

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.