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River Flood Warning 106, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 15, 2020Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Sep 15, 2020, 8:40 PM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It took effect at Sep 19, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2020, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 19, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 6, 2020, 8:40 PM CDT
In force: 17 days
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 Alabama River at Selma (SELA1).

Action stage: 30 ft
Minor stage: 45 ft
Moderate stage: 48 ft
Major stage: 52 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02423000, 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 Sep 15, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 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
Sep 15, 8:37 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa	5 days
Sep 15, 8:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Talladega	13 hr
Sep 16, 11:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery, Pike	4 hr
Sep 16, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	49 min
Sep 16, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Pike	10 hr
Sep 16, 3:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Lowndes, Montgomery	6 hr
Sep 16, 3:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Elmore, Macon	6 hr
Sep 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BMX	Barbour	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.