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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Seattle, WA
NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Jan 7, 2009, 6:50 PM PST for Lewis County, Washington. It took effect at Jan 8, 2009, 2:55 AM PST. It was in force for 43 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2009, 6:50 PM PST (02:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2009, 2:55 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2009, 9:54 PM PST
- In force
- 43 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Seattle, WA
- Flood severity
- Major
County Lewis County, WA
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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 Skookumchuck River at Centralia (CTAW1).
- Action stage
- 187 ft
- Minor stage
- 189 ft
- Moderate stage
- 190 ft
- Major stage
- 191 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12026600, 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 Jan 7, 3:40 PM PST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 3:40 PM PST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 7, 5:49 PM PST | River Flood Warning | SEW | Whatcom | 52 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:37 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | SEW | King, Kitsap, Snohomish | 12 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:41 PM PST | River Flood Warning | SEW | King | 23 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:51 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | SEW | 18 hr | |
| Jan 8, 8:02 AM PST | River Flood Warning | SEW | Skagit | 26 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:26 PM PST | River Flood Warning | SEW | King, Pierce | 27 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.