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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Memphis, TN

December 30, 2024Dyer County, Gibson County, Obion County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Dec 30, 2024, 7:36 AM CST for Dyer County, Gibson County, Obion County, Tennessee. It took effect at Dec 31, 2024, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 60 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 30, 2024, 7:36 AM CST (13:36 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 31, 2024, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 2, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 60 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Obion County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:36 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 Obion River near Obion (OBNT1). The gauge peaked at 34.19 ft at Dec 31, 2024, 11:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 29 ft
Minor stage: 34 ft
Moderate stage: 38.5 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07026040, 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 Dec 30, 6:48 AM CST, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 6:48 AM CST, 48 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
Dec 30, 2:10 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry and 6 more	9 hr
Dec 29, 10:40 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	9 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2024 Every river flood warning in 2024

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.