Widespread heavy rainfall resulted in river flooding across parts of the Mid-South including the Missouri Bootheel. Minor flooding occurred along the St.
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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 episode as NWS MEG wrote it up.
Widespread heavy rainfall resulted in river flooding across parts of the Mid-South including the Missouri Bootheel. Minor flooding occurred along the St. Francis River along the Butler County and Dunklin County borders at the end of 2015.
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 Dec 30, 11:26 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1126 PM CST WED DEC 30 2015 .DISCUSSION... UPDATED FOR 06Z AVIATION DISCUSSION. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 813 PM CST WED DEC 30 2015/ DISCUSSION... SOME CLEARS SKIES HAVE MOVED INTO PARTS OF EASTERN ARKANSAS AND THUS HAVE CHANGED FORECAST A LITTLE. MODELS INDICATE THAT THE CLEARER SKIES WILL NOT MOVE INTO WEST TENNESSEE OR MISSISSIPPI. ALSO NOT SURE HOW LONG IT WILL STAY CLEAR AS THE ATMOSPHERE IS FAIRLY SATURATED IN THE LOWEST 3KFT. HAVE LOWERED SKY COVER AND TEMPERATURES FOR EASTERN ARKANSAS ALONG WITH THE LOW TEMPERATURES. OTHER AREAS LOOK TO BE ON TRACK. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. TLSJR && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 531 PM CST WED DEC 30 2015/ DISCUSSION... UPDATED FOR 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 310 PM CST WED DEC 30 2015/ DISCUSSION... CURRENTLY...LOW CLOUDS ARE TRAPPED ACROSS THE REGION AND CONTINUE TO COVER MOST OF THE MIDSOUTH. TEMPS RANGE FROM THE LOWER 40S ACROSS NORTHEAST ARKANSAS TO LOWER 50S TOWARD TUPELO. WINDS ARE LIGHT FROM THE N/NW. 1040 MB SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM BUILD SOUTH INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS KEEPING THE MIDSOUTH IN COOL NORTHERLY SURFACE FLOW. LOW CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO HANG AROUND THROUGH MUCH OF THURSDAY. 12Z NAM...WHICH OFTEN DOES WELL WITH THESE CLOUDS...FINALLY CLEARS THEM OUT THURSDAY NIGHT. MEANWHILE MID AND HIGH CLOUDS IN THE QUICK SW FLOW ALOFT WILL SKIRT SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE MIDSOUTH THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. ANY RAIN SHOULD REMAIN SUPPRESSED WELL TO THE SOUTH SO REMOVED POPS FROM NORTH MISSISSIPPI DURING THE THU-FRI TIME FRAME. WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE TONIGHT DUE TO CLOUDS AND BELOW FOR HIGH TEMPS ON THURSDAY. AS SKIES CLEAR OUT BY THIS WEEKEND EXPECT A COUPLE OF COLD NIGHTS WITH LOWS IN THE 20S. DRY AND SEASONABLY COOL WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDS INTO THE REGION AND SURFACE HIGH PUSHES SOUTH INTO THE EASTERN U.S. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COULD BRING SOME RAIN...AMOUNTS WOULD BE LIGHT...TO THE REGION BY MIDWEEK. SJM && .AVIATION... 06Z TAFS CLEARING LINE OF MVFR STRATUS HAS SLOWLY MARCHED EAST THIS EVENING WITH MEM NOW SCT/VFR. BELIEVE VFR WEATHER MAY FLIRT WITH MEM AND MKL THROUGH THE NIGHT...WITH HIGHER CONFIDENCE THAT STRATUS WILL HOLD FAST AT TUP UNTIL LATER IN THE DAY. NORTHERLY WINDS AT 3-8KTS. JAB && .MEG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...NONE. MO...NONE. MS...NONE. TN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 311 AM CST WED DEC 30 2015 ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115- MSZ001>017-020>024-TNZ001>004-019>022-048>055-088>092-311200- ALCORN-BENTON MS-BENTON TN-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CHESTER-CHICKASAW-CLAY- COAHOMA-CRAIGHEAD-CRITTENDEN-CROCKETT-CROSS-DESOTO-DECATUR- 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- 311 AM CST WED DEC 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...AND WEST TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUR ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR THE LATEST RIVER FLOODING INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MODERATE RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER. MODERATE TO MAJOR RIVER FLOODING IS FORECAST FOR THE MAIN STEM OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER SOUTH TO AT LEAST TUNICA MISSISSIPPI BY THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR THE LATEST RIVER FLOODING INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KRM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A person drowned when attempting to swim in the St. Francis River while it was flooded.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood, Dunklin | 2015-12-31 | 40 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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