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River Flood Warning 77, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Nov 14, 2009, 9:56 AM CST for 6 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 14, 2009, 9:56 AM CST (15:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2009, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Chilton County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:53 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 Coosa River at Logan Martin Dam (CCSA1).
- Action stage
- 465.5 ft
- Minor stage
- 467 ft
- Moderate stage
- 470 ft
- Major stage
- 475 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02405200, 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 13, 5:35 PM CST, 16 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 13, 5:35 PM CST, 16 hours 21 minutes before
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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.