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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Portland, OR

October 13, 2016Wahkiakum County, Washington

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Oct 13, 2016, 2:21 PM PDT for Wahkiakum County, Washington. It took effect at Oct 13, 2016, 8:27 PM PDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 2016, 2:21 PM PDT (21:21 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2016, 8:27 PM PDT
Expired: Oct 14, 2016, 11:26 AM PDT
In force: 15 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 21:23 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 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 Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 13, 12:59 PM PDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
1259 PM PDT THU OCT 13 2016

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

1240 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 SW SAUVIE ISLAND      45.63N 122.87W
10/13/2016                   MULTNOMAH          OR   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN OVER CORNELIUS PASS RD. BETWEEN
            US-30 AND SKYLINE BLVD.

&&

BENTLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Portland, OR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 12, 7:04 PM PDT	High Surf Advisory	PQR	27 hr
Oct 13, 2:58 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	PQR	5 days
Oct 13, 8:28 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PQR	14 hr
Oct 13, 2:49 PM PDT	High Wind Watch	PQR	24 hr
Oct 13, 3:07 PM PDT	Hurricane Force Wind Watch	PQR	35 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 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.