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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 7, 2014Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Apr 7, 2014, 9:09 AM CDT for Dale County, Alabama. It took effect at Apr 7, 2014, 3:02 PM CDT. It was in force for 72 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2014, 9:09 AM CDT (14:09 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 7, 2014, 3:02 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 10, 2014, 2:49 PM CDT
In force: 72 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Choctawhatchee River near Newton (SR 134) (NEWA1). The gauge peaked at 26.04 ft at Apr 9, 2014, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02361000, 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 7, 5:03 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 5:03 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 2:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 6 more	14 hr
Apr 7, 6:09 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	67 hr
Apr 7, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Apr 7, 12:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson	3 hr
Apr 7, 1:22 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Apr 7, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	38 min
Apr 7, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	31 min
Apr 7, 3:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	86 min
Apr 7, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Apr 7, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	37 min
Apr 7, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	49 min
Apr 7, 6:58 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	30 days
Apr 6, 7:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	5 days
Apr 7, 11:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller	3 hr
Apr 7, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner	51 min
Apr 7, 12:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Seminole	3 hr
Apr 7, 12:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	26 min
Apr 7, 12:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Worth	3 hr
Apr 7, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Irwin	36 min
Apr 7, 1:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Decatur, Grady	3 hr
Apr 7, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	3 hr
Apr 7, 2:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	3 days
Apr 7, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Worth	18 hr
Apr 7, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	23 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

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.