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River Flood Warning 95, NWS Memphis, TN

March 12, 2019Tate County, Tunica County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2019, 1:05 PM CDT for Tate County, Tunica County, Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 14, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2019, 1:05 PM CDT (18:05 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2019, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2019, 8:43 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Tate County, MS, Tunica County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Coldwater River near Sarah (SARM6).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07279700, 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 11, 6:39 PM CDT, 18 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 6:39 PM CDT, 18 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 12, 11:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Monroe	3 days
Mar 12, 1:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	3 days
Mar 12, 1:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	5 days
Mar 12, 1:05 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	21 days
Mar 12, 3:10 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more	52 hr
Mar 12, 11:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	62 hr
Mar 12, 11:01 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Crockett, Dyer, Lauderdale	21 days

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.