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River Flood Warning 64, NWS Seattle, WA

November 15, 2015Grays Harbor County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Nov 15, 2015, 6:09 AM PST for Grays Harbor County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 15, 2015, 3:36 PM PST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 15, 2015, 6:09 AM PST (14:09 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 15, 2015, 3:36 PM PST
Expired: Nov 20, 2015, 10:57 PM PST
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Seattle, WA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Grays Harbor County, WA

The radar

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 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 at Porter (CRPW1).

Action stage: 45.5 ft
Minor stage: 48 ft
Moderate stage: 50 ft
Major stage: 52 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12031000, 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 15, 4:02 AM PST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 4:02 AM PST, 2 hours 7 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 14, 9:02 PM PST	Flood Watch	SEW		13 hr
Nov 14, 9:02 PM PST	Flood Watch	SEW		4 days
Nov 14, 10:26 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	SEW		12 hr
Nov 15, 3:08 AM PST	Gale Watch	SEW		13 hr
Nov 15, 4:24 AM PST	Winter Storm Watch	SEW		11 hr
Nov 15, 2:58 PM PST	High Wind Watch	SEW	San Juan	27 hr
Nov 15, 2:58 PM PST	Wind Advisory	SEW	San Juan	28 hr
Nov 15, 2:58 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	SEW		37 hr
Nov 15, 3:42 PM PST	Gale Warning	SEW		60 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.