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River Flood Warning 145, NWS Memphis, TN

May 10, 2019Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 10, 2019, 10:51 AM CDT for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 11, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2019, 10:51 AM CDT (15:51 UTC)
In effect from: May 11, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 13, 2019, 9:05 PM CDT
In force: 56 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 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tallahatchie River near Swan Lake (SWNM6).

Action stage: 25 ft
Minor stage: 26 ft
Moderate stage: 33 ft
Major stage: 37 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 May 10, 10:08 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 10:08 AM CDT, 43 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
May 10, 10:20 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lowndes, Monroe	5 days
May 10, 1:34 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	5 days
May 10, 1:34 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Perry	70 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 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.