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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 8, 2011Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this river flood warning at Mar 8, 2011, 8:42 AM CST for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It took effect at Mar 9, 2011, 8:11 AM CST. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2011, 8:42 AM CST (14:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 9, 2011, 8:11 AM CST
Expired: Mar 16, 2011, 3:33 AM CDT
In force: 7 days
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:41 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 Florence (FLOA1).

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 32 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 2440E77C, 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 Mar 8, 5:19 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 5:19 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 8, 4:03 AM CST, 4 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
403 AM CST TUE MAR 8 2011

ALZ006-008>010-TNZ076-096-097-081900-
MADISON-MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN-
403 AM CST TUE MAR 8 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

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

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS EVENING.  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL
ARRIVE LATE TONIGHT IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA...PRODUCING SUSTAINED HEAVY
RAINFALL...LOCALIZED FLOODING AND ISOLATED CASES OF DAMAGING WINDS.

OUTSIDE THE RAIN...GENERAL WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP...WITH
SOUTHEAST SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...AND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH.

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

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE PROGRESSING EASTWARD DURING THE
MORNING HOURS...FOLLOWED BY A SUSTAINED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN FOR
SEVERAL HOURS INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IS ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG A COLD FRONT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE
WEATHER.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH POCKETS OF UP TO THREE INCHES
POSSIBLE. GUSTY WINDS WILL REMAIN A HAZARD THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE WEST AND DIMINISHING BEHIND A COLD
FRONT.

RUNOFF MAY PUSH RIVERS AND STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS CAUSING
MINOR TO MODERATE FLOODING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. A
FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS POTENTIAL FROM 3 AM WEDNESDAY TO
3 AM THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS
POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

ALZ001>005-007-016-081900-
LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MORGAN-CULLMAN-
403 AM CST TUE MAR 8 2011

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

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING...AND
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVERNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE.

OUTSIDE THE RAIN...GENERAL WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP...WITH
SOUTHEAST SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...AND GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH.
IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS...GUSTS COULD REACH AROUND 50 MPH AT TIMES.

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

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK EASTWARD DURING THE MORNING
HOURS...FOLLOWED BY A SUSTAINED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN FOR SEVERAL
HOURS INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS IS ALSO POSSIBLE ALONG A COLD FRONT LATE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE
ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM...WITH POCKETS OF UP TO THREE INCHES
POSSIBLE. GUSTY WINDS WILL REMAIN A HAZARD THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE WEST AND DIMINISHING BEHIND A COLD
FRONT.

RUNOFF MAY PUSH RIVERS AND STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS CAUSING MINOR
TO MODERATE FLOODING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. A FLOOD
WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS POTENTIAL FROM 3 AM WEDNESDAY TO 3 AM
THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS
POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY.

KULA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 1:51 AM CST	River Flood Watch	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	6 days
Mar 8, 4:03 AM CST	Flood Watch	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	31 hr
Mar 8, 4:03 AM CST	Wind Advisory	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	32 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2011 Every river flood warning in 2011

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.