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River Flood Warning 146, NWS Memphis, TN

May 14, 2019Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 14, 2019, 11:35 AM CDT for Coahoma County, Tunica County, Mississippi; Lee County, Phillips County, Arkansas. It took effect at May 15, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 52 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2019, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
In effect from
May 15, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 17, 2019, 11:13 AM CDT
In force
52 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Lee County, AR, Phillips County, AR, Coahoma County, MS, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Mississippi River at Helena (HEEA4).

Action stage
40 ft
Minor stage
44 ft
Moderate stage
50 ft
Major stage
55 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 14, 6:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
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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.