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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Portland, OR

November 12, 2008Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2008, 6:14 AM PST for Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 12, 2008, 10:30 AM PST. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 12, 2008, 6:14 AM PST (14:14 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 12, 2008, 10:30 AM PST
Expired
Nov 13, 2008, 11:47 AM PST
In force
25 hr
Issued by
NWS Portland, OR
Flood severity
Minor

County Wahkiakum County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Grays River at Covered Bridge near Rosburg (GRRW1).

Action stage
27.5 ft
Minor stage
28.5 ft
Moderate stage
30.5 ft
Major stage
32.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Nov 11, 2:33 PM PST, 15 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 2:33 PM PST, 15 hours 41 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 7:58 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQRBenton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Tillamook and 2 more5 hr
Nov 12, 4:51 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningPQR9 hr
Nov 12, 6:57 AM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsPQR15 hr
Nov 12, 6:57 AM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasPQR47 hr
Nov 12, 3:03 PM PSTFlash Flood WatchPQR11 hr
Nov 12, 10:06 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQRPacific, Wahkiakum14 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2008Every river flood warning in 2008

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.