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River Flood Warning 59, NWS Birmingham, AL

October 13, 20094 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Oct 13, 2009, 10:32 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Oct 14, 2009, 8:34 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 2009, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 14, 2009, 8:34 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 19, 2009, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Sumter County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tombigbee River at Gainesville Lock and Dam (GNSA1). The gauge peaked at 100.47 ft at Oct 15, 2009, 7:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 101 ft
Minor stage: 101 ft
Moderate stage: 110 ft
Major stage: 118 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02447026, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Oct 13, 6:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 6:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 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
Oct 12, 9:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	8 days
Oct 12, 9:18 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo	7 days
Oct 13, 9:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 16 more	19 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.