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River Flood Warning 39, NWS Portland, OR
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.
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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 Luckiamute River near Suver (SUVO3). The gauge peaked at 30.89 ft at Dec 18, 2015, 1:00 PM PST.
- 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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Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 9:49 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PQR | 10 hr | |
| Dec 17, 2:23 AM PST | Storm Warning | PQR | 22 hr | |
| Dec 17, 5:18 AM PST | Gale Warning | PQR | 19 hr | |
| Dec 17, 5:18 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Winds | PQR | 13 hr | |
| Dec 17, 5:18 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | PQR | 13 hr | |
| Dec 17, 7:54 AM PST | High Wind Warning | PQR | 17 hr | |
| Dec 17, 9:44 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | PQR | Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Lane, Lincoln, Polk and 3 more | 17 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:15 PM PST | River Flood Warning | PQR | Benton | 50 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:15 PM PST | River Flood Warning | PQR | Benton, Lincoln | 34 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:15 PM PST | River Flood Warning | PQR | Lane | 38 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:51 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PQR | 13 hr | |
| Dec 17, 3:39 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | PQR | Benton, Clackamas, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah and 3 more | 6 hr |
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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.