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River Flood Warning 63, NWS Seattle, WA

November 14, 2015Thurston County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Nov 14, 2015, 3:46 PM PST for Thurston County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 14, 2015, 11:35 PM PST. It was in force for 57 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 14, 2015, 3:46 PM PST (23:46 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 14, 2015, 11:35 PM PST
Expired: Nov 17, 2015, 9:01 AM PST
In force: 57 hr
Issued by: NWS Seattle, WA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Thurston County, WA

The radar

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 Chehalis River near Grand Mound (CGMW1).

Action stage: 138.5 ft
Minor stage: 141 ft
Moderate stage: 142.5 ft
Major stage: 144 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12027500, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Nov 14, 3:30 PM PST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 3:30 PM PST, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 13, 5:03 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Snohomish	58 hr
Nov 13, 8:11 PM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Skagit	44 hr
Nov 14, 2:41 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	SEW		54 hr
Nov 14, 4:03 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	SEW		30 hr
Nov 14, 8:10 AM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	25 hr
Nov 14, 10:17 AM PST	River Flood Warning	SEW	Lewis	18 hr
Nov 14, 2:44 PM PST	Flood Watch	SEW	Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis and 6 more	5 days

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.