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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Memphis, TN
NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Mar 25, 2023, 12:29 PM CDT for Lafayette County, Marshall County, Union County, Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 25, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2023, 12:29 PM CDT (17:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2023, 10:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Memphis, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Lafayette County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Union County, MS
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Little Tallahatchie River at Etta (ETAM6). The gauge peaked at 25.56 ft at Mar 25, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 20 ft
- Minor stage
- 25 ft
- Moderate stage
- 28 ft
- Major stage
- 29 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07268000, 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 25, 10:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 10:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 7:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Quitman, Tallahatchie | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 43 min |
| Mar 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Benton | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 9:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 39 min |
| Mar 24, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Union | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall | 83 min |
| Mar 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Union | 23 min |
| Mar 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 35 min |
| Mar 24, 10:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Calhoun | 14 min |
| Mar 24, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 11:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 8 min |
| Mar 24, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Monroe | 13 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MEG | Lowndes, Monroe | 4 days |
| Mar 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Mar 24, 7:38 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MEG | Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale | 12 days |
| Mar 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MEG | Fayette | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, McNairy and 1 more | 38 min |
| Mar 24, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chester, Decatur, Hardin, Henderson, McNairy, Madison | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Obion, Weakley | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Henry, Weakley | 3 hr |
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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.