Pemiscot

The Flood Advisory continues for
the Mississippi River at Caruthersville
* until Wednesday June 19.
* At 09 am Tuesday the stage was 29.2 feet.
* Flood stage is 32.0 feet.
* Forecast... the river will rise to near 29.4 feet Thursday June 20.
* At 29.0 feet... Chisholm Lake Road is flooded south of cocklebur
Slough. Overbank flooding begins on low lying farmland along both
banks of the Mississippi River and the Obion river in northwest
Tennessee. Old Forked Deer river is beginning to flood fields in
the Hales Point area south of Suggs Road.

... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Jonesboro...

A record rainfall of 2.03 inches was set at Jonesboro yesterday.
This breaks the old record of 1.76 inches which was set back in 1945.