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River Flood Warning 129, NWS Memphis, TN

April 18, 2019Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 18, 2019, 11:36 AM CDT for Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas. It took effect at Apr 19, 2019, 10:02 AM CDT. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2019, 11:36 AM CDT (16:36 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 19, 2019, 10:02 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 21, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 60 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clay County, AR, Greene County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point St. Francis River at St. Francis (SFRA4).

Action stage: 19 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 31 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07040100, 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 18, 11:04 AM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 11:04 AM CDT, 32 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 18, 12:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	19 hr
Apr 18, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Monroe	2 hr
Apr 18, 6:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis	3 hr
Apr 18, 11:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Craighead	55 hr
Apr 18, 11:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Mississippi, Poinsett	21 days
Apr 18, 11:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	69 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.