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River Flood Warning 124, NWS Memphis, TN

April 17, 2019Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 17, 2019, 10:12 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It took effect at Apr 19, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 54 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2019, 10:12 AM CDT (15:12 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 19, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 21, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 54 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Tallahatchie County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tallahatchie River at Locopolis (LOGM6).

Action stage: 32 ft
Minor stage: 33 ft
Moderate stage: 35.5 ft
Major stage: 38 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 Apr 17, 9:53 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:53 AM CDT, 19 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
Apr 17, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	59 hr
Apr 17, 10:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	21 days
Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Coahoma, Tunica	16 days
Apr 17, 3:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more	28 hr
Apr 17, 10:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Obion, Weakley	3 days
Apr 17, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Dyer	21 days
Apr 17, 11:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	3 days

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.