Forecast Services to be Discontinued at the Flint River at Chase in June

Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
242 PM CDT Tue May 16 2023

...Forecast Services to be Discontinued at the Flint River at
Chase River Gage...

When the Winchester Road Bridge over the Flint River was replaced
back in late 2014, the decision was made to remove the river gage
at that location due to construction. The United States Geological
Survey (USGS), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Lower
Mississippi River Forecast Center (LMRFC), and the local National
Weather Service Office (NWS) in Huntsville, Alabama have discussed
re-establishing the river gage, but to date, there has been no
funding available to do so. River level information has not been
available since the gage was removed, nor have there been any
updates or maintenance of discharge ratings at the site. In order
to aid in the forecast services and verification of the
downstream point on the Flint River at Brownsboro, the Chase
forecast point was allowed to continue in the interim. However,
recently, the LMRFC has streamlined forecasting processes, and
without a gage at this location, the decision to remove
forecasting services was made earlier this year.

We regret to inform the users of the previous Flint River at Chase
gage that this site will be discontinued as a river forecast point
as of Friday, June 16th, 2023. It will formally be removed from
the Advanced Hydrologic and Prediction Service page (AHPS) at that
time.

Please contact us at 256.890.8503 if you have any questions
concerning this Public Information Statement:

Todd Barron (ext. 222)
Meteorologist in Charge
WFO Huntsville, AL

Chelly Amin (ext. 225)
Hydrology Program Manager
WFO Huntsville, AL