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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Sacramento, CA

March 3, 20165 counties in California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this flash flood watch at Mar 3, 2016, 1:26 PM PST for 5 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 5, 2016, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2016, 1:26 PM PST (21:26 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2016, 4:00 PM PST
Expired: Mar 6, 2016, 3:51 AM PST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Flood severity: None

Counties Calaveras County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Lake County, CA, Placer County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Mar 3, 8:46 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 8:46 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 1:03 PM PST, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 1:25 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	STO		25 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in California, 2016 Every flash flood watch 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.