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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Pendleton, OR

December 9, 2015Yakima County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Dec 9, 2015, 7:58 AM PST for Yakima County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 9, 2015, 9:30 AM PST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 9, 2015, 7:58 AM PST (15:58 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 9, 2015, 9:30 AM PST
Expired: Dec 10, 2015, 4:20 AM PST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Yakima County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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 Naches River near Cliffdell (CLFW1).

Action stage: 29 ft
Minor stage: 31 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 9, 3:36 AM PST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 3:36 AM PST, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 8, 8:38 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	48 hr
Dec 8, 11:28 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	52 hr
Dec 9, 4:44 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	25 hr
Dec 9, 4:44 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Benton	4 days
Dec 9, 5:42 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Klickitat	22 hr
Dec 9, 6:41 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	51 hr
Dec 9, 7:39 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Klickitat	24 hr
Dec 9, 7:58 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Kittitas	15 hr
Dec 9, 9:07 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Kittitas, Yakima	24 hr
Dec 9, 2:49 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	PDT		24 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.