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River Flood Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Mar 11, 2010, 9:01 AM CST for Elmore County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It took effect at Mar 11, 2010, 4:05 PM CST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2010, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2010, 4:05 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2010, 8:39 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Elmore County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The river
Written for the forecast point Tallapoosa River at Tallapoosa Water Plant (MGYA1).
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 25 ft
- Moderate stage
- 32 ft
- Major stage
- 38 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02419890, 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 Mar 11, 5:58 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 5:58 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 11, 8:28 AM CST, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 10, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Sumter | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 7:40 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Talladega | 42 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 9 min |
| Mar 10, 7:56 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 5 days |
| Mar 10, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 8:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 8:34 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 48 hr |
| Mar 10, 8:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter, Tuscaloosa | 36 hr |
| Mar 10, 8:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 6 days |
| Mar 10, 8:44 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 6 days |
| Mar 11, 12:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Pike | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Elmore, Macon, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 2:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:06 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Marion, Pickens and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:29 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter | 29 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 5 days |
| Mar 11, 9:05 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 71 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:05 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas | 3 days |
| Mar 11, 9:07 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 35 hr |
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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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.