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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 23, 20105 counties in Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Jan 23, 2010, 10:25 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 24, 2010, 10:50 PM CST. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 2010, 10:25 AM CST (16:25 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2010, 10:50 PM CST
Expired
Jan 26, 2010, 6:21 AM CST
In force
32 hr
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Flood severity
Minor

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

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 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 Tombigbee River at Bevill Lock and Dam (AVLA1).

Action stage
122 ft
Minor stage
122 ft
Moderate stage
133 ft
Major stage
135 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02444161, 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 Jan 23, 5:33 AM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 5:33 AM CST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 4:17 AM CSTWind AdvisoryBMXAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more34 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2010Every river flood warning in 2010

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.