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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Portland, OR

January 15, 2011Clackamas County, Marion County, Oregon; Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Jan 15, 2011, 9:14 PM PST for Clackamas County, Marion County, Oregon; Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Jan 16, 2011, 12:49 AM PST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 15, 2011, 9:14 PM PST (05:14 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 16, 2011, 12:49 AM PST
Expired: Jan 21, 2011, 8:51 AM PST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clackamas County, OR, Marion County, OR, Wahkiakum County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:16 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 Pudding River at Aurora (AURO3).

Action stage: 21 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 26 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14202000, 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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 15, 8:25 PM PST, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 8:25 PM PST, 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 15, 6:44 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln and 7 more	44 days
Jan 15, 8:38 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	PQR		42 hr
Jan 15, 8:38 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PQR		4 days
Jan 15, 10:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Benton, Polk	62 hr
Jan 15, 10:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Clatsop, Tillamook	45 hr
Jan 15, 10:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Tillamook	32 hr
Jan 15, 10:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Lincoln	32 hr
Jan 15, 10:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Lane	24 hr
Jan 15, 10:55 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Clackamas	40 hr
Jan 15, 10:55 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Clackamas	34 hr
Jan 16, 1:02 AM PST	Gale Warning	PQR		14 hr
Jan 16, 3:51 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Hood River	17 hr
Jan 16, 3:51 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Clackamas, Multnomah	20 hr
Jan 16, 8:17 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Tillamook	21 hr
Jan 16, 12:47 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Hood River, Lincoln and 7 more	10 hr
Jan 16, 2:29 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Linn, Marion	9 hr
Jan 16, 12:05 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Cowlitz	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2011 River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2011 Every river flood warning in 2011

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.