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River Flood Warning 40, NWS Memphis, TN

March 24, 2023Craighead County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 24, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT for Craighead County, Arkansas. It took effect at Mar 25, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 35 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2023, 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 25, 2023, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Mar 26, 2023, 10:29 PM CDT
In force
35 hr
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Craighead County, AR

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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 Lake City (LCRA4).

Action stage
8 ft
Minor stage
10 ft
Moderate stage
12 ft
Major stage
15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07040450, 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 24, 11:32 AM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 11:32 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 6:55 AM CDTWind AdvisoryMEGAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more20 hr
Mar 24, 9:23 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGDyer24 hr
Mar 24, 9:27 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGObion, Weakley24 hr
Mar 24, 9:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGDyer, Gibson, Obion24 hr
Mar 24, 12:08 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGMadison21 hr
Mar 24, 2:12 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGDyer, Lake, Lauderdale12 days
Mar 24, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Cross, Greene, Poinsett47 min
Mar 24, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead, Crittenden, Cross, Mississippi, Poinsett46 min
Mar 24, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee, Phillips, St. Francis43 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 2023Every river flood warning in 2023

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.