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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Medford, OR

November 20, 2014Siskiyou County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this flash flood watch at Nov 20, 2014, 8:46 PM PST for Siskiyou County, California. It took effect at Nov 21, 2014, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 20, 2014, 8:46 PM PST (04:46 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 21, 2014, 4:00 PM PST
Expired: Nov 22, 2014, 3:46 AM PST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Flood severity: None

County Siskiyou County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Nov 20, 8:07 PM PST, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 8:07 PM PST, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 20, 4:42 PM PST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 21, 2:55 AM PST	Gale Warning	MFR		19 hr
Nov 21, 2:55 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	MFR		7 hr

Nearby

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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.