Flood Statement
Issued by NWS Memphis, TN

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Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Memphis TN
344 PM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

...The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a Flood
Advisory for the following rivers in Missouri...Arkansas...
Tennessee...

  Mississippi River at Caruthersville

For the Lower Mississippi River...including Caruthersville...
elevated river levels are forecast.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you encounter a flooded roadway, turn around and find an
alternative route.

Additional information is available at weather.gov/memphis.

The next statement will be issued as needed.

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344 PM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO EARLY MONDAY
MORNING...

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.

* WHERE...Mississippi River at Caruthersville.

* WHEN...From this afternoon to early Monday morning.

* IMPACTS...At 32.0 feet, In Arkansas, docks of the steel mill near
  Hickman are flooding. In Tennessee, Mississippi River overbank
  flooding is occurring across Highway 88 just north of Dee Webb
  Road. Extensive amounts of Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge are
  flooded. Sloughs at the west end of Barr Road are beginning to
  back up into fields.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
  - At 3:00 PM CDT Saturday the stage was 31.98 feet and falling.
  - Forecast...The river is expected to continue to fall and will
    likely fall below action stage on Monday, April 28.
  - Action stage is 29.0 feet.
  - Flood stage is 32.0 feet.
  - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

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LAT...LON 3623 8977 3623 8948 3606 8950 3595 8948
      3582 8956 3582 8985


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