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River Flood Warning 45, NWS Seattle, WA

November 12, 2008Clallam County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Nov 12, 2008, 5:11 AM PST for Clallam County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 12, 2008, 7:51 AM PST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 12, 2008, 5:11 AM PST (13:11 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 12, 2008, 7:51 AM PST
Expired: Nov 12, 2008, 6:14 PM PST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Seattle, WA
Flood severity: Minor

County Clallam County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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 Bogachiel River near La Push (BOGW1).

Action stage: 35 ft
Minor stage: 37 ft
Major stage: 41 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12043015, 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 Nov 12, 3:05 AM PST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 3:05 AM PST, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 12, 5:00 AM PST, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 4:27 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Mason	42 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Grays Harbor	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Whatcom	35 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Whatcom	21 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Whatcom	24 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Skagit	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Skagit	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	20 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	36 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	21 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	42 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	3 days
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	3 days
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	King	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	King	49 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	King	3 days
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	King	21 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	King	21 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Pierce	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Pierce	48 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Pierce	24 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis, Pierce	55 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	55 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Thurston	31 hr
Nov 11, 9:09 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	SEW	King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish and 1 more	36 hr
Nov 12, 3:29 AM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Thurston	18 hr
Nov 12, 2:36 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		15 hr

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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.