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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Spokane, WA

February 28, 2014Grant County, Washington

NWS Spokane, WA issued this flash flood watch at Feb 28, 2014, 3:23 PM PST for Grant County, Washington. It was in force for 69 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 28, 2014, 3:23 PM PST (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2014, 12:00 PM PST
In force: 69 hr
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA
Flood severity: None

County Grant County, WA

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Feb 28, 2:53 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 2:53 PM PST, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 6:16 AM PST, 9 hours 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 3:05 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	OTX	Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whitman	24 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.