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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2025, 10:25 AM CST for 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2025, 10:25 AM CST (16:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2025, 8:11 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Chilton County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Coosa River at Childersburg (CHLA1).
- Action stage
- 402 ft
- Minor stage
- 402 ft
- Moderate stage
- 407 ft
- Major stage
- 410 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02407000, 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 13, 6:22 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 6:22 AM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 6:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chilton | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:00 PM CST | River Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 25 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Clay, Coosa, Shelby, Talladega | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:22 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Winston | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:52 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Talladega | 5 hr |
| Feb 12, 7:57 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:00 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Greene, Marengo, Sumter | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:15 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:23 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:25 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Blount | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Coosa | 50 min |
| Feb 12, 8:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | St. Clair | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 8:56 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 9:36 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Tallapoosa | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 9:59 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:39 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chambers, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Feb 12, 10:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Coosa, Shelby, Talladega | 3 hr |
| Feb 12, 11:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 11:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 53 min |
| Feb 12, 11:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Feb 12, 11:56 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Feb 13, 12:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Lee | 58 min |
| Feb 13, 12:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 12:54 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Bullock | 51 min |
| Feb 13, 1:02 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:37 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:19 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Pike | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:58 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 43 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.