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Flash Flood Watch 17, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 26, 200930 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this flash flood watch at Sep 26, 2009, 4:15 AM CDT for 30 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Sep 26, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 26, 2009, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 26, 2009, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 26, 2009, 7:57 PM CDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Flood severity: None

All 30 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 3:45 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 6:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	49 min
Sep 26, 8:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	21 min
Sep 26, 9:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Lamar	3 hr
Sep 26, 9:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Walker	115 min
Sep 26, 10:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lamar	3 hr
Sep 26, 10:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette	118 min
Sep 26, 11:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Walker	3 hr
Sep 26, 12:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	3 hr
Sep 26, 12:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Shelby	118 min
Sep 26, 1:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega	2 hr
Sep 26, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun	78 min
Sep 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Clay	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.