in 2011 new records were set for the Mississippi River flood stages at both Vicksburg and Natchez on the same day. Estimates of the USGS indicate that the peak streamflow at Vicksburg, 2,340,000 cubic feet per second, exceeded both the estimated peak streamflow of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the measured peak streamflow of the 1937 flood.
The record in Vicksburg is 57.1 feet, surpassing the old record of 56.2 feet by nearly a foot set in the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The record in Natchez is 61.9 feet, surpassing the old record set in the Flood of 1937 of 58 feet by nearly four feet.
Mississippi PEP 