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River Flood Warning 87, NWS Memphis, TN

May 26, 2025Quitman County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at May 26, 2025, 3:26 PM CDT for Quitman County, Mississippi. It took effect at May 28, 2025, 11:30 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2025, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
In effect from
May 28, 2025, 11:30 AM CDT
Expired
May 27, 2025, 11:50 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Quitman County, MS

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 Tallahatchie River near Lambert (LMGM6).

Action stage
31 ft
Minor stage
32 ft
Moderate stage
35 ft
Major stage
37 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07280000, 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 May 26, 2:36 PM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:36 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin35 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGCrockett, Dyer, Lauderdale35 hr
May 26, 11:19 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryMEGDecatur, Hardin37 hr
May 25, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc and 4 more47 min
May 25, 8:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGItawamba26 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGChickasaw36 min
May 26, 11:15 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGMonroe22 hr
May 26, 11:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningMEGQuitman4 days
May 26, 6:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGLee28 min
May 26, 6:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMEGPrentiss33 min

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.