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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this river flood warning at Feb 21, 2014, 10:40 AM CST for Jackson County, Madison County, Marshall County, Alabama. It took effect at Feb 22, 2014, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2014, 10:40 AM CST (16:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2014, 6:05 AM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Jackson County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Paint Rock River (AL) near Woodville (WDVA1).
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 15 ft
- Moderate stage
- 19 ft
- Major stage
- 22 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 03574500, 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 Feb 21, 10:32 AM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 10:32 AM CST, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 20, 7:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 45 min |
| Feb 20, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 31 min |
| Feb 20, 8:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Feb 20, 8:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 29 min |
| Feb 20, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 34 min |
| Feb 20, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 31 min |
| Feb 20, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan | 39 min |
| Feb 20, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison, Morgan | 26 min |
| Feb 20, 9:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 49 min |
| Feb 20, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 32 min |
| Feb 20, 9:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence, Morgan | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 10:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 10:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 10:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 43 min |
| Feb 20, 10:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 39 min |
| Feb 20, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 11:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 12:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 43 min |
| Feb 21, 12:35 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:30 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 9 hr |
| Feb 20, 10:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 49 min |
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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.