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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Spokane, WA

December 13, 2010Kootenai County, Shoshone County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2010, 10:37 PM PST for Kootenai County, Shoshone County, Idaho. It took effect at Dec 14, 2010, 3:36 AM PST. It was in force for 102 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2010, 10:37 PM PST (06:37 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 14, 2010, 3:36 AM PST
Expired
Dec 14, 2010, 5:18 AM PST
In force
102 min
Issued by
NWS Spokane, WA
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Kootenai County, ID, Shoshone County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 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 Coeur d'Alene River at Cataldo (CTLI1). The gauge peaked at 42.84 ft at Dec 14, 2010, 10:00 PM PST.

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Action stage
42 ft
Minor stage
43 ft
Moderate stage
46 ft
Major stage
50 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12413500, 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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 13, 9:43 PM PST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 9:43 PM PST, 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 8:56 PM PST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 13, 7:59 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryOTXPend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens15 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Idaho, 2010Every river flood warning in 2010

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.