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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Portland, OR

January 21, 2016Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Jan 21, 2016, 10:17 AM PST for Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Jan 21, 2016, 1:44 PM PST. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 21, 2016, 10:17 AM PST (18:17 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 21, 2016, 1:44 PM PST
Expired: Jan 22, 2016, 9:04 PM PST
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wahkiakum County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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 Grays River at Covered Bridge near Rosburg (GRRW1).

Action stage: 27.5 ft
Minor stage: 28.5 ft
Moderate stage: 30.5 ft
Major stage: 32.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Jan 20, 2:57 PM PST, 19 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 2:57 PM PST, 19 hours 20 minutes before

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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.