A rainfall of 3 to is predicted by local authorities and the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center for both the Yucat�n Peninsula and western Cuba.
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Meanwhile, Saturday, the River Forecast Office in Wilmington, Ohio, was still estimating the final crest on the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky ., later in the day.
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Around the country, the Weather Service operates 13 river forecast centers that monitor river levels at about 4, 000 places, including about 30 in southern New England.
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Water levels for the Ohio River from Smithland Lock and Dam upstream to Pittsburgh are predicted daily by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ohio River Forecast Center.
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"Any significant rain event could pose a significant problem for these rivers, " said Jason Johnson, a forecaster with the West Gulf River Forecast Center in Fort Worth.
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Agreed Robert Shedd of the Northeast River Forecast Centerin Taunton, Mass . : " Being able to implement it in an operational setting becomes a much bigger issue ."
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John Feldt, hydrologist in charge of the Southeast River Forecast Center in Peachtree City, said Earl is not expected to cause serious flooding in Georgia unless it stalls the way Alberto did.
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A typical warning will state the forecast point covered by the warning, the current flood stage, the established flood stage, and the expected crest, which is issued by the River Forecast Center.
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He has also worked at NWS offices in Jackson, Mississippi, Dodge City Kansas, and the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell, LA as well as for the private sector in Houston, Texas.
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Since the mid-1990s, official river forecasts now focus on the probability of crests within a certain range of values instead of the prior practice of predicting a single number for the river crest.
