3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 15, 3:41 AM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 341 AM CST SUN FEB 15 2004 .DISCUSSION... PROBLEM OF THE DAY WILL BE IN THE FIRST 6 HOURS OF THE FORECAST. SURFACE LOW IS NEAR BHM AT 08Z...WITH UPPER LOW PROBABLY JUST WEST OF JAN. TEMPERATURES IN OUR CWA ARE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S. DEWPOINTS RANGE FROM MID 20S EXTREME NORTH TO NEAR 40 SOUTH. NO REPORTS OF SNOW ANYWHERE IN OUR CWA AT 08Z. && .SHORT TERM (THROUGH MONDAY)... NOTED TEMPERATURES HAVE ACTUALLY GONE UP A COUPLE DEGREES OVER AROUND LITTLE ROCK SINCE MIDNIGHT. MODEL SOUNDINGS DO INDICATE A SMALL WINDOW OF TIME THAT MAY ALLOW A CHANGEOVER TO SNOW BEFORE ENDING. HAVE SEEN TEMPERATURES DROP ACROSS SELMER...OXFORD AND TUPELO AREAS OVER LAST HOUR. CLOUD TOPS COOLING SOME AS WELL. WILL DROP A FEW OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES FROM ADVISORY. WILL LOWER ACCUMULATIONS TO 1-2 INCHES...MAINLY ON GRASSY AREAS. WILL MENTION A RAIN MIX WITH SNOW...BUT WITH TEMPS AROUND 40 ALL NIGHT...IT WOULD HAVE TO SNOW RATHER HARD TO ACCUMULATE AT ALL. WILL PROBABLY SEE CLEARING ACROSS WEST HALF OF AREA BY NOON...BUT SOUTHEAST PORTIONS WILL LIKELY NOT CLEAR UNTIL CLOSE TO SUNSET. WITH CURRENT READINGS NEAR OR ABOVE FORECAST HIGHS...WILL NEED TO BOOST THEM A LITTLE...ESPECIALLY WITH SOME SUNSHINE EXPECTED. SKIES SHOULD BE MOSTLY CLEAR TONIGHT...BUT WINDS OF 5 TO 10 KNOTS WILL STOP TEMPS FROM PLUNGING. WILL LIKELY SEE SOME HIGH CLOUDS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON. SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY WILL HAVE NO PRECIPITATION WITH IT. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY AND BEYOND)... PATTERN BECOMES MORE PROGRESSIVE...WITH A RIDGE OVER US BY THURSDAY. ANOTHER PRECIP EVENT BY FRIDAY OR FRIDAY NIGHT APPEARS TO BE REASONABLE. AS WE GET TOWARD END OF THE WEEK...UPPER AND SURFACE PATTERNS ARE INDICATIVE OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...HAVE TENDED EXTENDED FORECAST UP A COUPLE OF DEGREES...BUT NOWHERE NEAR MEX GUIDANCE FOR HIGHS AT THIS TIME. COOLING AGAIN SLIGHTLY BY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY OF NEXT WEEK. && .MEG...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...SNOW ADVISORY FOR PHILLIPS COUNTY UNTIL NOON. MS...SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL NOON ALL OF NRN MS EXCEPT DESOTO COUNTY. MO...NONE. TN...SNOW ADVISORY UNTIL NOON SOUTHEAST OF A LEXINGTON TO BOLIVAR LINE. && WAGNER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 449 AM CST SUN FEB 15 2004 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-161115- ALCORN-BENTON-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY-COAHOMA- CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DECATUR-DESOTO-DUNKLIN-DYER- FAYETTE-GIBSON-GREENE-HARDEMAN-HARDIN-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-HENRY- ITAWAMBA-LAFAYETTE-LAKE-LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEE(AR)-LEE(MS)-MADISON- MARSHALL-MCNAIRY-MISSISSIPPI-MONROE-OBION-PANOLA-PEMISCOT-PHILLIPS- POINSETT-PONTOTOC-PRENTISS-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH-SHELBY-ST. FRANCIS- TALLAHATCHIE-TATE-TIPPAH-TIPTON-TISHOMINGO-TUNICA-UNION-WEAKLEY- YALOBUSHA- 449 AM CST SUN FEB 15 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TODAY. A RAIN AND SNOW MIX WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE MID-SOUTH THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A WYNNE TO MEMPHIS TO JACKSON LINE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW THIS MORNING. AN INCH OR LESS OF SNOW COULD FALL NORTH OF THE LINE BY NOON. DRIVING MAY BECOME HAZARDOUS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO PLEASE REPORT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THIS MORNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads in both the northern and southern part of the county were covered with water.
Some roads were flooded.
Numerous roads in the county were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, February 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5385893, 5385895, 5385894.