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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Feb 12, 2024, 9:51 AM CST for Autauga County, Dallas County, Lowndes County, Alabama. It took effect at Feb 14, 2024, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2024, 9:51 AM CST (15:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2024, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2024, 7:17 PM CST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Autauga County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Lowndes County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Alabama River at Henry Lock and Dam (TYLA1). The gauge peaked at 125.75 ft at Feb 14, 2024, 12:00 AM CST.
- Action stage
- 122 ft
- Minor stage
- 122 ft
- Moderate stage
- 132 ft
- Major stage
- 135 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02421350, 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 12, 5:34 AM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 5:34 AM CST, 4 hours 17 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 11, 7:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 6 days |
| Feb 11, 10:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Talladega | 25 min |
| Feb 11, 10:35 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 40 min |
| Feb 11, 10:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Cleburne | 35 min |
| Feb 12, 12:57 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 117 min |
| Feb 12, 1:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 18 min |
| Feb 12, 2:19 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:29 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:31 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:41 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lee | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:43 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 4 days |
| Feb 12, 4:41 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 2 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 16 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:41 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Dallas, Perry | 27 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:42 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:44 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 days |
| Feb 12, 9:50 AM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas | 4 days |
| Feb 12, 11:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Feb 12, 12:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Walker | 36 min |
| Feb 12, 12:22 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bibb | 38 min |
| Feb 12, 12:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Feb 12, 1:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Feb 12, 3:46 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Clay, Coosa, Etowah, St. Clair and 2 more | 59 min |
| Feb 12, 4:46 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph | 59 min |
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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.