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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Feb 18, 2019, 7:45 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Feb 21, 2019, 3:20 PM CST. It was in force for 15 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2019, 7:45 PM CST (01:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2019, 3:20 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2019, 7:04 PM CST
- In force
- 15 days
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Sumter County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Tombigbee River at Demopolis Lock and Dam (DLDA1). The gauge peaked at 85.16 ft at Mar 2, 2019, 2:00 AM CST.
- Action stage
- 68 ft
- Minor stage
- 68 ft
- Moderate stage
- 77 ft
- Major stage
- 92 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02467000, 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 Feb 18, 6:29 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 6:29 PM CST, 1 hour 16 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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| Feb 18, 7:45 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter | 12 days |
| Feb 18, 7:45 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 21 days |
| Feb 18, 7:46 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 18 days |
| Feb 19, 7:01 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 7:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Marengo | 34 min |
| Feb 19, 7:38 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker | 6 days |
| Feb 19, 7:40 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Sumter | 26 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Dallas | 23 min |
| Feb 19, 8:26 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 23 hr |
| Feb 19, 8:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Pickens | 35 min |
| Feb 19, 12:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chilton | 29 min |
| Feb 19, 2:50 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Sumter | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 3:51 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Winston | 16 min |
| Feb 19, 5:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 40 min |
| Feb 19, 5:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 36 min |
| Feb 19, 5:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| Feb 19, 5:49 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.