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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Jackson, MS

May 5, 2025Attala County, Holmes County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at May 5, 2025, 8:37 AM CDT for Attala County, Holmes County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 7, 2025, 5:56 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2025, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2025, 5:56 PM CDT
Expired
May 22, 2025, 8:31 PM CDT
In force
15 days
Issued by
NWS Jackson, MS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Attala County, MS, Holmes County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Black River at West (WSTM6). The gauge peaked at 17.97 ft at May 14, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
12 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07289350, 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 May 5, 6:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 8:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANFranklin59 hr
May 5, 8:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANMadison, Yazoo16 days
May 5, 8:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANHinds, Warren17 days
May 5, 10:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANLeake4 days
May 5, 10:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANNeshoba5 days
May 5, 10:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningJANLeake21 days
May 5, 10:54 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryJANIssaquena, Washington16 days
May 5, 1:54 PM CDTFlood WatchJANAdams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 21 more44 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2025Every river flood warning in 2025

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.