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River Flood Warning 68, NWS Jackson, MS

May 17, 2025Yazoo County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this river flood warning at May 17, 2025, 3:13 PM CDT for Yazoo County, Mississippi. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2025, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2025, 8:52 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Yazoo River at Yazoo City (YZOM6).

Action stage: 28 ft
Minor stage: 29 ft
Moderate stage: 36 ft
Major stage: 43 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 17, 1:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 17, 12:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 1:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 2:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 17, 2:42 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 3:03 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 3:06 PM CDT, 7 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
May 17, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	57 min
May 17, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	55 min
May 17, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leflore, Sunflower	48 min
May 17, 2:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery	44 min
May 17, 2:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Grenada	37 min
May 17, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Webster	43 min
May 17, 3:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	27 min
May 17, 4:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Choctaw, Lowndes, Oktibbeha	38 min
May 17, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha	58 min
May 17, 6:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Kemper	57 min
May 17, 6:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Madison, Yazoo	67 min
May 17, 8:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	44 min
May 17, 8:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Scott	45 min
May 17, 9:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Newton	44 min
May 17, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	94 min
May 17, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Warren	42 min
May 17, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Warren	45 min
May 17, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	62 min
May 17, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	23 min
May 17, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Rankin	42 min
May 17, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	Smith	48 min
May 17, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	37 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	62 min
May 17, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	64 min
May 17, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo	48 min
May 17, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	40 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	West Carroll	43 min
May 17, 6:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	58 min
May 17, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Ashley	57 min

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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.