Flood warnings in place in North Alabama

Flood warnings in place in North Alabama

Thanks kate.

The tennessee river will continue to rise with more rain in our area.

Waay31's breken terry spoke with the t-v-a about what it's doing to manage the minor floodstage we're in.

Look live: i'm here at wilson dam in muscle shoals and right now that's about 1.5 million gallons of water per second flowing through the dam that's causing the river to rise to almost 19 feet.

Guinn- were recovering from last weekend's rain event where we saw several inches of rainfall across the entire main river.

Tva's riverforecast center manager darrell guinn said even though the rain is gone sites like this one at wilson dam won't be going away.

Guinn- it takes a few days for the water to make its way in the system.

And then as it does, we push it on through by releasing pretty large volumes of water through all the reservoirs right now.

And that can make being on the river more dangerous than normal.

Guinn- there's a lot of debris along the shorelines all the creeks and smaller rivers and streams that get impacted as well have a lot of debris in them and everything makes it's way into the big reservoir's and that is an extremely dangerous situation where boaters have to take precautions because a lot of that debris is submerged right under the surface.

Guinn said the most dangerous spot on the rivers and lakes are any places near the dams that are spilling large amounts of water.

Guinn- with rain events like this and flows as they are significant fluctuation in pull levels can change rapidly as well as flows.

We advise everyone to avoid above and below the dams because they are unpredictable during these times.

Look live tag: tva's riverforecast center is manned 24 hours a day seven days a week.

They will be adjusting flows over the next few days to handle more rain that's coming in.

The river will crest later on this week.

In the shoals bt waay31.

Since the river levels are at minor floodstage -- the city of florence evacuated it's campgrounds at mcfarland park.