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River Flood Warning 56, NWS Seattle, WA

November 17, 2009Pierce County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Nov 17, 2009, 9:17 AM PST for Pierce County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 17, 2009, 9:47 AM PST. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 17, 2009, 9:17 AM PST (17:17 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 17, 2009, 9:47 AM PST
Expired: Nov 17, 2009, 12:38 PM PST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Seattle, WA
Flood severity: Minor

County Pierce County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 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 Puyallup River near Orting (ORTW1). The gauge peaked at 7.84 ft at Nov 17, 2009, 7:00 AM PST.

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12093500, 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 17, 3:40 AM PST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 3:40 AM PST, 5 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 17, 5:52 AM PST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 17, 7:11 AM PST, 2 hours 6 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 16, 4:06 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Clallam	9 hr
Nov 16, 4:06 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Clallam	14 hr
Nov 16, 5:48 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	9 hr
Nov 16, 6:10 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		10 hr
Nov 16, 6:25 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	8 hr
Nov 16, 6:25 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	24 hr
Nov 17, 3:25 AM PST	Gale Watch	SEW		12 hr
Nov 17, 3:25 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		25 hr
Nov 17, 3:00 PM PST	Gale Watch	SEW		13 hr
Nov 17, 3:00 PM PST	Gale Warning	SEW		3 days
Nov 17, 3:00 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		13 hr
Nov 17, 3:00 PM PST	Storm Warning	SEW		60 hr

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.