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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, MS

January 26, 2024Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at Jan 26, 2024, 7:06 AM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It was in force for 8 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 2024, 7:06 AM CST (13:06 UTC)
Expired: Feb 2, 2024, 8:26 PM CST
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sunflower County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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 Big Sunflower River at Sunflower (SUNM6). The gauge peaked at 24.30 ft at Jan 29, 2024, 5:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 21 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07288500, 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 25, 5:20 PM CST, 13 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 5:20 PM CST, 13 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 25, 10:24 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more	14 hr
Jan 26, 7:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Neshoba	5 days
Jan 26, 8:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	7 days
Jan 26, 10:49 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	Marion	5 days

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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.