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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Portland, OR

December 17, 2015Benton County, Polk County, Oregon

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Dec 17, 2015, 12:15 PM PST for Benton County, Polk County, Oregon. It took effect at Dec 18, 2015, 12:17 AM PST. It was in force for 55 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 2015, 12:15 PM PST (20:15 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 18, 2015, 12:17 AM PST
Expired
Dec 20, 2015, 7:35 AM PST
In force
55 hr
Issued by
NWS Portland, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Benton County, OR, Polk County, OR

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 Luckiamute River near Suver (SUVO3). The gauge peaked at 30.89 ft at Dec 18, 2015, 1:00 PM PST.

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Action stage
25 ft
Minor stage
27 ft
Moderate stage
29 ft
Major stage
32 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14190500, 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 Dec 17, 12:01 PM PST, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 12:01 PM PST, 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 16, 9:49 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPQR10 hr
Dec 17, 2:23 AM PSTStorm WarningPQR22 hr
Dec 17, 5:18 AM PSTGale WarningPQR19 hr
Dec 17, 5:18 AM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for WindsPQR13 hr
Dec 17, 5:18 AM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasPQR13 hr
Dec 17, 7:54 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningPQR17 hr
Dec 17, 9:44 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQRBenton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln, Polk and 3 more17 hr
Dec 17, 12:15 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQRBenton50 hr
Dec 17, 12:15 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQRBenton, Lincoln34 hr
Dec 17, 12:15 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQRLane38 hr
Dec 17, 12:51 PM PSTWind AdvisoryPQR13 hr
Dec 17, 3:39 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQRBenton, Clackamas, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah and 3 more6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2015Every 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.