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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Portland, OR

February 18, 2014Clatsop County, Tillamook County, Oregon

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Feb 18, 2014, 12:27 PM PST for Clatsop County, Tillamook County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 18, 2014, 1:22 PM PST. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 18, 2014, 12:27 PM PST (20:27 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2014, 1:22 PM PST
Expired: Feb 19, 2014, 2:17 PM PST
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Clatsop County, OR, Tillamook County, OR

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 Nehalem River near Foss (FSSO3). The gauge peaked at 15.06 ft at Feb 18, 2014, 7:00 PM PST.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14301000, 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 Feb 17, 2:43 PM PST, 21 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 2:43 PM PST, 21 hours 44 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
Feb 18, 1:11 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Lincoln, Marion, Multnomah and 4 more	6 hr
Feb 18, 2:23 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	PQR		22 hr
Feb 18, 2:23 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PQR		65 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

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.