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EXTENDED STREAMFLOW FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
1200 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2008

      ...MIDWEST FLOODS TO CAUSE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO            
         RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AT CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI THE       
         MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...

      ...HIGH WATER IS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE IN THE MIDSOUTH...

THE DISASTROUS FLOODS IN THE MIDWEST THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS HAVE 
RAISED MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVELS SIGNIFICANTLY FROM CAIRO ILLINOIS 
SOUTH TO HELENA ARKANSAS.  THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT  CARUTHERSVILLE 
ARKANSAS WILL CREST ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. HOWEVER...ALL OTHER GAGES IN 
THE MIDSOUTH SHOULD CREST BELOW FLOOD STAGE. 
ONLY...FARMLAND...FISHING CAMPS...VACATION CABINS...AND SETTLEMENTS 
NEAR THE RIVER THAT ARE NOT PROTECTED BY LEVEES WILL HAVE BACKWATER 
FLOODING.

CRESTS WILL ARRIVE NEXT WEEK. EXPECTED HIGH WATER MARKS IN THE 
MIDSOUTH WILL BE 33.5 FEET AT TIPTONVILLE TENNESSEE; 32.5 FEET AT 
CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI (32.0 FEET IS FLOOD STAGE); 27.0 FEET AT 
MEMPHIS; AND 34.5 FEET AT HELENA ARKANSAS.

THIS HIGH WATER WILL MOSTLY AFFECT DYER AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES IN 
NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER CAUSED THE OBION AND 
FORKED DEER RIVERS TO FLOW BACKWARDS LAST WEEK. THOUSANDS OF ACRES 
OF SOYBEANS AND COTTON WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD FRIDAY...JUNE 13TH. 
FURTHER FLOODING IN THE BOTTOMLAND OF MENTIONED TENNESSEE COUNTIES 
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. FARMERS IN THOSE 
COUNTIES ARE BUSY HARVESTING THEIR WHEAT CROP BEFORE THEY LOSE IT TO 
THIS FLOOD. ROADS TO VACATION CABINS NEAR CHISHOLM LAKE IN 
LAUDERDALE COUNTY ARE ALREADY CLOSED. MANY MORE RURAL ROADS WILL 
CLOSE IN THE MENTIONED COUNTIES.

ON THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL AND ARKANSAS SIDE OF THE RIVER NEAR AND 
SOUTH OF CARUTHERSVILLE...MISSISSIPPI RIVER WATER WILL BACK UP 
SLOUGHS...OX BOW LAKES...AND OLD RIVER CHANNELS TO FLOOD SOME 
UNPROTECTED FARMLAND.

SOUTH OF OSCEOLA ARKANSAS TO MEMPHIS AND ON TO HELENA ARKANSAS...ONLY
THE LOWEST PLACES NEAR THE RIVER WILL WILL FLOOD. THE CORPS OF 
ENGINEERS IS NOW PUMPING WATER AT THE HUXTABLE PUMPING STATION NEAR 
MARIANA ARKANSAS TO AVOID FLOOD PROBLEMS ON THE SAINT FRANCIS RIVER.

THE 1993 MIDWEST FLOOD CAUSED THE TIPTONVILLE TENNESSEE AND 
CARUTHERSVILLE ARKANSAS RIVER GAGES TO CREST ABOVE FLOOD STAGE. 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTS THIS YEAR WILL BE 4 TO 6 FEET LOWER IN THE 
MIDSOUTH THAN THEY WERE IN 1993.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FLOODING AND HIGH WATER ON THE MISSISSIPPI 
RIVER CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TENNESSEE 
WEB SITE AT: HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG.

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