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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Memphis, TN

February 17, 2025Lauderdale County, Tipton County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Feb 17, 2025, 7:47 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Tipton County, Tennessee; Mississippi County, Arkansas. It took effect at Feb 19, 2025, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for 10 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 17, 2025, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 19, 2025, 8:00 AM CST
Expired
Mar 1, 2025, 8:48 AM CST
In force
10 days
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Mississippi County, AR, Lauderdale County, TN, Tipton County, TN

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 Mississippi River at Osceola (OSGA4).

Action stage
24 ft
Minor stage
28 ft
Moderate stage
31 ft
Major stage
35 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 17, 5:44 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 5:44 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 7:16 PM CSTAreal Flood WarningMEGObion47 hr
Feb 17, 7:46 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGShelby12 days
Feb 17, 7:47 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGDyer, Lake, Lauderdale11 days
Feb 18, 5:35 AM CSTCold Weather AdvisoryMEGBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more30 hr
Feb 18, 12:51 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGBenton, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Stewart36 hr
Feb 18, 1:39 PM CSTCold Weather AdvisoryMEGBenton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more46 hr
Feb 17, 7:46 PM CSTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGTunica14 days
Feb 17, 7:38 PM CSTRiver Flood WarningMEGMississippi, Poinsett21 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2025River Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 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.