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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

January 7, 2009Kittitas County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Jan 7, 2009, 10:48 AM PST for Kittitas County, Washington. It took effect at Jan 7, 2009, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 49 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2009, 10:48 AM PST (18:48 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2009, 10:00 PM PST
Expired: Jan 9, 2009, 10:59 PM PST
In force: 49 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Flood severity: Minor

County Kittitas County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Yakima River at Umtanum (UMTW1).

Action stage: 33.5 ft
Minor stage: 35.5 ft
Moderate stage: 38 ft
Major stage: 39 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12484500, 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 7, 10:00 AM PST, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 10:00 AM PST, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 7, 6:00 AM PST, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 7, 7:29 AM PST, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 7, 9:37 AM PST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 7, 9:52 AM PST, 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 6, 5:08 PM PST	High Wind Warning	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	13 hr
Jan 6, 5:53 PM PST	Wind Advisory	PDT	Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Wasco	18 hr
Jan 7, 2:31 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Union	48 hr
Jan 7, 2:56 PM PST	Wind Advisory	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	18 hr
Jan 7, 8:58 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	4 days
Jan 7, 10:48 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	60 hr
Jan 7, 3:00 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Walla Walla	56 hr
Jan 7, 3:03 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	39 hr
Jan 7, 3:03 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	47 hr
Jan 7, 3:03 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Benton	4 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.