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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 20, 2019Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Feb 20, 2019, 7:58 PM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It took effect at Feb 21, 2019, 7:30 PM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2019, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2019, 7:30 PM CST
Expired: Feb 26, 2019, 5:24 AM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Sumter County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 Sucarnoochee River at Livingston (LVNA1). The gauge peaked at 21.80 ft at Feb 24, 2019, 2:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 18 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 25 ft
Major stage: 30 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02467500, 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 20, 6:08 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 6:08 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 20, 7:06 PM CST, 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 20, 7:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Perry	24 min
Feb 20, 7:51 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter, Tuscaloosa	5 days
Feb 20, 8:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Tallapoosa	37 min
Feb 20, 9:54 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Elmore	3 hr
Feb 20, 10:24 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 18 more	11 hr
Feb 20, 11:59 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene	46 min
Feb 21, 12:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Sumter	42 min
Feb 21, 1:15 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Sumter	4 hr
Feb 21, 10:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Coosa, Etowah, St. Clair, Shelby and 1 more	12 days
Feb 21, 10:10 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega	21 days
Feb 21, 10:52 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah, St. Clair	16 days
Feb 21, 2:25 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Marion	3 hr
Feb 21, 3:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lee	35 min
Feb 21, 4:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Greene, Sumter	29 min
Feb 21, 5:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Shelby	26 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.