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River Flood Warning 64, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 10, 2009Bibb County, Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Nov 10, 2009, 8:55 PM CST for Bibb County, Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2009, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2009, 5:47 AM CST
In force: 33 hr
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Bibb County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Shelby County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Cahaba River near Cahaba Heights (CHGA1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02423425, 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 Nov 10, 6:10 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 6:10 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 10, 7:02 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 10, 8:34 PM CST, 21 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
Nov 10, 6:02 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	21 hr
Nov 10, 6:22 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Coosa, Etowah, Jefferson and 3 more	4 hr
Nov 10, 8:55 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Dallas, Perry	49 hr
Nov 10, 9:00 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Elmore, Macon, Randolph, Tallapoosa	36 hr
Nov 10, 10:58 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Cherokee, Cleburne	62 min
Nov 10, 11:10 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo	4 days
Nov 11, 7:26 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery	4 days
Nov 11, 10:13 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	70 hr
Nov 11, 11:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Coosa, Etowah, St. Clair, Shelby and 1 more	23 hr
Nov 11, 11:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	23 hr
Nov 11, 11:24 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes	22 hr
Nov 11, 1:26 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Talladega	20 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.