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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Seattle, WA

May 17, 2008Lewis County, Pierce County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at May 17, 2008, 6:34 PM PDT for Lewis County, Pierce County, Washington. It took effect at May 17, 2008, 9:45 PM PDT. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 2008, 6:34 PM PDT (01:34 UTC)
In effect from
May 17, 2008, 9:45 PM PDT
Expired
May 19, 2008, 7:37 AM PDT
In force
34 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Lewis County, WA, Pierce County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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 Nisqually River near National (NISW1). The gauge peaked at 10.39 ft at May 17, 2008, 11:00 PM PDT.

89101105/1805/1905/20

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12082500, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 17, 3:00 PM PDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:00 PM PDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 1:51 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEWLewis13 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.