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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Portland, OR

February 6, 2015Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2015, 9:35 AM PST for Wahkiakum County, Washington. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 6, 2015, 9:35 AM PST (17:35 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2015, 11:42 PM PST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wahkiakum County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Grays River at Covered Bridge near Rosburg (GRRW1).

Action stage: 27.5 ft
Minor stage: 28.5 ft
Moderate stage: 30.5 ft
Major stage: 32.5 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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 6, 3:06 AM PST, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:06 AM PST, 6 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 6, 3:37 AM PST, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 6, 7:24 AM PST, 2 hours 11 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 6, 8:52 AM PST	Gale Watch	PQR		12 hr
Feb 6, 8:52 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	PQR		18 hr
Feb 6, 8:52 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PQR		18 hr
Feb 6, 9:56 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Clatsop, Tillamook	5 hr
Feb 6, 11:12 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Lane, Lincoln, Tillamook	3 hr
Feb 6, 2:58 PM PST	High Wind Watch	PQR		6 hr
Feb 6, 3:20 AM PST	Flood Watch	PQR		6 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.