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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Sacramento, CA

December 10, 2014Tehama County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Dec 10, 2014, 8:20 PM PST for Tehama County, California. It took effect at Dec 11, 2014, 2:40 PM PST. It was in force for 7 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 10, 2014, 8:20 PM PST (04:20 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 11, 2014, 2:40 PM PST
Expired: Dec 18, 2014, 2:40 PM PST
In force: 7 days
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Tehama County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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 Sacramento River at Vina-Woodson Bridge (VWBC1).

Action stage: 180 ft
Minor stage: 183 ft
Moderate stage: 189.5 ft
Major stage: 190 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 10, 3:33 PM PST, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 3:33 PM PST, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 11, 1:42 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Shasta, Tehama	11 hr
Dec 11, 6:36 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Solano, Sutter and 2 more	6 hr
Dec 11, 8:55 AM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Glenn	8 days
Dec 11, 9:35 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Butte, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra and 3 more	12 hr
Dec 11, 9:39 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	STO	El Dorado, Placer	12 hr
Dec 11, 9:56 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento and 6 more	12 hr
Dec 11, 10:45 AM PST	Wind Advisory	STO		6 hr
Dec 11, 11:34 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Glenn, Tehama	12 hr
Dec 11, 1:23 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	STO	Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Solano, Yolo	12 hr
Dec 11, 1:27 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	STO		21 hr
Dec 11, 1:57 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra and 3 more	12 hr
Dec 11, 2:36 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Glenn	8 days
Dec 11, 2:41 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Yolo	16 hr
Dec 11, 2:41 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Yolo	29 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 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.