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River Flood Warning 50, NWS Memphis, TN

February 11, 2020Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 11, 2020, 10:45 AM CST for Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. It took effect at Feb 11, 2020, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 21 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2020, 10:45 AM CST (16:45 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 11, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Mar 3, 2020, 10:45 AM CST
In force
21 days
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 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 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 Feb 10, 5:50 PM CST, 16 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 5:50 PM CST, 16 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 7:30 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGTate, Tunica41 hr
Feb 10, 9:37 PM CSTAreal Flood WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 1 more8 hr
Feb 11, 8:25 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGLee5 hr
Feb 11, 2:30 PM CSTAreal Flood WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc6 hr
Feb 10, 8:04 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGDyer, Gibson, Obion21 days
Feb 11, 1:39 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGBenton, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart27 hr
Feb 11, 10:13 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGClay, Greene71 hr

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.