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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 8, 2020Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this river flood warning at Feb 8, 2020, 7:16 PM CST for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It took effect at Feb 8, 2020, 8:55 PM CST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2020, 7:16 PM CST (01:16 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 8, 2020, 8:55 PM CST
Expired: Feb 10, 2020, 1:42 AM CST
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 Pea River near Ariton (US 231) (ARTA1). The gauge peaked at 14.60 ft at Feb 9, 2020, 2:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02363000, 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 Feb 8, 5:30 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 5:30 PM CST, 1 hour 46 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
Feb 9, 2:04 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		28 hr
Feb 9, 2:28 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Walton	19 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.