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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Memphis, TN

February 16, 2025Decatur County, Perry County, Tennessee

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 16, 2025, 6:46 AM CST for Decatur County, Perry County, Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 17, 2025, 6:43 AM CST. It was in force for 53 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2025, 6:46 AM CST (12:46 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 17, 2025, 6:43 AM CST
Expired: Feb 19, 2025, 12:11 PM CST
In force: 53 hr
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Decatur County, TN, Perry County, TN

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tennessee River at Perryville (PRVT1).

Action stage: 362 ft
Minor stage: 365 ft
Moderate stage: 368 ft
Major stage: 375 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 16, 5:17 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 5:17 AM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 1:50 AM CST, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 1:57 AM CST, 4 hours 49 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
Feb 15, 6:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Lake and 3 more	4 hr
Feb 15, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Shelby	26 min
Feb 15, 6:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Tipton	39 min
Feb 15, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton	42 min
Feb 15, 6:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Gibson, Haywood, Lauderdale	51 min
Feb 15, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	45 min
Feb 15, 7:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	43 min
Feb 15, 7:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Henry, Weakley	21 min
Feb 15, 7:08 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Fayette, Madison	52 min
Feb 15, 7:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Haywood, Shelby, Tipton	3 hr
Feb 15, 7:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	52 min
Feb 15, 7:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley	41 min
Feb 15, 7:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Madison	10 min
Feb 15, 7:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Henry	4 hr
Feb 15, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Henry, Madison	52 min
Feb 15, 10:16 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry and 5 more	4 hr
Feb 15, 11:03 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Madison	64 hr
Feb 15, 11:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Fayette, Shelby	20 hr
Feb 16, 12:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Henderson, Henry, Madison and 1 more	2 hr
Feb 16, 12:42 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Decatur, Perry	6 hr
Feb 16, 6:46 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Benton, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart	15 hr
Feb 16, 6:46 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale	14 days
Feb 16, 6:46 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	MEG	Lauderdale, Tipton	15 days
Feb 16, 7:35 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	MEG	Obion	24 hr
Feb 16, 2:38 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 13 more	24 hr
Feb 15, 7:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	24 min
Feb 15, 7:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	17 min
Feb 15, 9:32 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MEG	Calhoun	28 min
Feb 15, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc	52 min
Feb 15, 10:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	51 min
Feb 15, 10:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	49 min
Feb 16, 12:14 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Alcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee and 7 more	108 min
Feb 16, 12:45 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Quitman	34 hr
Feb 15, 8:47 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee, St. Francis	21 days
Feb 15, 10:59 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	64 hr

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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.