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River Flood Warning 100, NWS Memphis, TN

March 14, 2019Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 14, 2019, 3:19 AM CDT for Fayette County, Shelby County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 14, 2019, 11:42 AM CDT. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2019, 3:19 AM CDT (08:19 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2019, 11:42 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2019, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Fayette County, TN, Shelby County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Loosahatchie River at Arlington (ARLT1).

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 20 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07030240, 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 14, 12:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 12:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 3:03 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 13, 10:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 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 13, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma	46 min
Mar 13, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	42 min
Mar 13, 8:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	DeSoto	66 min
Mar 13, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie	41 min
Mar 13, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola, Quitman, Tate	38 min
Mar 13, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Marshall	61 min
Mar 13, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Marshall	23 min
Mar 14, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Union	27 min
Mar 14, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Alcorn	31 min
Mar 14, 12:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Tishomingo	45 min
Mar 14, 12:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Monroe	37 min
Mar 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	18 min
Mar 14, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	16 min
Mar 14, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Monroe	46 min
Mar 14, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lake	45 min
Mar 14, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lake, Obion	48 min
Mar 14, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Hardin	30 min
Mar 14, 1:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Obion	3 days
Mar 14, 5:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	46 min
Mar 14, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	16 min
Mar 14, 6:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Clay	47 min
Mar 14, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	42 min
Mar 14, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Mississippi	39 min
Mar 14, 6:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	36 min
Mar 14, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Craighead, Mississippi	45 min
Mar 14, 6:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead, Cross, Poinsett	3 hr
Mar 14, 7:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett	43 min
Mar 14, 1:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	20 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.