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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Jackson, MS

February 13, 2025Sunflower County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2025, 10:54 AM CST for Sunflower County, Mississippi. It took effect at Feb 16, 2025, 8:41 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2025, 10:54 AM CST (16:54 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 16, 2025, 8:41 AM CST
Expired
Feb 20, 2025, 8:05 PM CST
In force
4 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 16:55 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 22.99 ft at Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM CST.

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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 Feb 13, 10:07 AM CST, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 10:07 AM CST, 47 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 12, 6:01 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJANClarke, Covington, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lauderdale and 3 more4 hr
Feb 12, 6:35 PM CSTTornado WarningJANClarke, Jasper, Jones55 min
Feb 12, 6:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCovington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Marion74 min
Feb 12, 7:09 PM CSTTornado WarningJANClarke51 min
Feb 12, 7:59 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningJANSimpson37 hr
Feb 12, 8:28 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningJANCarroll, Leflore38 hr
Feb 13, 10:14 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningJANMarion21 days
Feb 13, 11:32 AM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryJANAdams, Wilkinson11 days

Nearby

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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.