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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Huntsville, AL

January 7, 2009Madison County, Marshall County, Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this river flood warning at Jan 7, 2009, 8:08 AM CST for Madison County, Marshall County, Morgan County, Alabama. It took effect at Jan 8, 2009, 3:59 AM CST. It was in force for 64 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2009, 8:08 AM CST (14:08 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2009, 3:59 AM CST
Expired
Jan 10, 2009, 7:53 PM CST
In force
64 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:09 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 Tennessee River at Whitesburg (WHIA1).

Action stage
15 ft
Minor stage
17 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03575500, 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 Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 6, 5:30 PM CST, 14 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 5:30 PM CST, 14 hours 38 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 10:45 AM CST, 21 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1045 AM CST TUE JAN 6 2009

ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-070400-
LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN-
MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN-
1045 AM CST TUE JAN 6 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS
OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

PERIODS OF RAIN...SOME OF WHICH WILL BECOME HEAVY...WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY. THIS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF STREET AND
CREEK FLOODING...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE WITHIN THE HEAVIEST
RAIN BANDS. ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVIER RAIN IS LIKELY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING AS A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE
AREA FROM WEST TO EAST. IN ADDITION...THE RAINFALL WILL CREATE A
FLOODING THREAT ON LARGER RIVERS ACROSS THE AREA. CONSULT THE LATEST
FLOOD WATCHES...WARNINGS...OR STATEMENTS FOR THE LATEST ON THE
FLOODING SITUATION.

THERE IS A SMALL THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF CULLMAN...MARSHALL...AND DEKALB
COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS
APPROACHING 50 MPH...WHICH MAY CARRY AN INCREASED RISK OF DOWNED
TREES WHEN COMBINED WITH THE HEAVY RAINFALL.

RAIN WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST...BY EARLY TO MID
EVENING WEST OF INTERSTATE 65...AND AROUND MIDNIGHT CLOSE TO THE
GEORGIA STATE LINE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES WILL BE
COMMON...LOCALLY UP TO 6 INCHES...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS SOUTH OF
THE TENNESSEE RIVER AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 65.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. HOWEVER...ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING OR
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

BCC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 11:30 PM CSTAreal Flood WarningHUNCullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 2 more12 hr
Jan 7, 2:48 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale6 days
Jan 7, 1:09 PM CSTWind AdvisoryHUNColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more4 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2009Every 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.