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River Flood Warning 34, NWS Memphis, TN

February 4, 2020Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 4, 2020, 9:41 PM CST for Clay County, Greene County, Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 4, 2020, 11:19 PM CST. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2020, 9:41 PM CST (03:41 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 4, 2020, 11:19 PM CST
Expired: Feb 7, 2020, 11:45 AM CST
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 03:40 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 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 Feb 4, 6:07 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 6:07 PM CST, 3 hours 34 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
Feb 5, 9:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Itawamba	52 min
Feb 5, 10:42 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe	3 hr
Feb 5, 2:43 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Panola, Quitman	32 min
Feb 5, 3:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Tippah	30 min
Feb 5, 3:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Lafayette	26 min
Feb 5, 3:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Benton, Marshall	37 min
Feb 5, 3:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Yalobusha	24 min
Feb 5, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Benton, Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	38 min
Feb 5, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	45 min
Feb 5, 4:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Alcorn, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo	30 min
Feb 5, 4:48 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Union	117 min
Feb 5, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tishomingo	49 min
Feb 5, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	19 min
Feb 5, 3:16 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Hardin	31 days
Feb 5, 4:37 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Decatur, Perry	22 days
Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Crittenden, St. Francis	52 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2020 Every 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.