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River Flood Warning 82, NWS Seattle, WA

November 17, 2015Lewis County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Nov 17, 2015, 4:26 PM PST for Lewis County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 17, 2015, 5:09 PM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 17, 2015, 4:26 PM PST (00:26 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 17, 2015, 5:09 PM PST
Expired
Nov 18, 2015, 8:17 AM PST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Lewis County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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 Cowlitz River at Packwood (PACW1). The gauge peaked at 11.93 ft at Nov 17, 2015, 7:00 PM PST.

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Action stage
8.2 ft
Minor stage
10.5 ft
Moderate stage
11 ft
Major stage
12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14226500, 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 17, 3:34 PM PST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 17, 3:34 PM PST, 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 17, 11:39 AM PST, 4 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1139 AM PST TUE NOV 17 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1138 AM     HIGH SUST WINDS  NW MOCLIPS              47.24N 124.22W
11/17/2015  M45 MPH          GRAYS HARBOR       WA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 53. ALSO 1.22 INCHES OF RAIN IN PAST
            24 HOURS.

&&

JNEHER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 17, 4:26 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWPierce15 hr
Nov 17, 4:26 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWPierce15 hr
Nov 17, 4:26 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWLewis16 hr
Nov 17, 4:55 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWClallam16 hr
Nov 17, 4:55 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWGrays Harbor24 hr
Nov 17, 5:49 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSkagit42 hr
Nov 17, 6:00 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEWKing9 hr
Nov 17, 6:18 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSnohomish42 hr
Nov 17, 6:18 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSnohomish49 hr
Nov 17, 6:27 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEWLewis9 hr
Nov 17, 6:38 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEWSnohomish12 hr
Nov 17, 6:51 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing12 hr
Nov 17, 6:56 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWThurston13 hr
Nov 17, 7:14 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWThurston24 hr
Nov 17, 7:14 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWLewis43 hr
Nov 17, 7:14 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWThurston62 hr
Nov 17, 8:57 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySEW13 hr
Nov 17, 8:57 PM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasSEW25 hr
Nov 17, 11:51 PM PSTGale WarningSEW4 hr
Nov 17, 11:51 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySEW10 hr
Nov 18, 3:01 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEWKing9 hr
Nov 18, 6:10 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEWSnohomish12 hr
Nov 18, 10:10 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing18 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 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.