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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Hanford, CA

December 14, 2016Mariposa County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this river flood warning at Dec 14, 2016, 7:46 PM PST for Mariposa County, California. It took effect at Dec 15, 2016, 8:23 PM PST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2016, 7:46 PM PST (03:46 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 15, 2016, 8:23 PM PST
Expired: Dec 16, 2016, 3:41 AM PST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Flood severity: Minor

County Mariposa County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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 Merced River at Pohono Bridge (POHC1).

Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12.5 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11266500, 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 Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 14, 3:46 PM PST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 3:46 PM PST, 4 hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 15, 1:42 PM PST	Wind Advisory	HNX		32 hr
Dec 15, 1:58 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	HNX		36 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 2016 Every river flood warning in 2016

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.