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River Flood Warning 100, NWS Memphis, TN

April 1, 2020Quitman County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 1, 2020, 8:53 PM CDT for Quitman County, Mississippi. It took effect at Apr 2, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 2020, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 2, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 2, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Quitman County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Tallahatchie River near Lambert (LMGM6).

Action stage
31 ft
Minor stage
32 ft
Moderate stage
35 ft
Major stage
37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07280000, 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 1, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 6:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 8:46 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGLee, St. Francis9 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2020Every river flood warning in 2020

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.