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River Flood Watch 8, NWS Spokane, WA

March 15, 2017Kootenai County, Shoshone County, Idaho

NWS Spokane, WA issued this river flood watch at Mar 15, 2017, 8:31 PM PDT for Kootenai County, Shoshone County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 16, 2017, 6:17 AM PDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2017, 8:31 PM PDT (03:31 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2017, 6:17 AM PDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2017, 8:00 PM PDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Spokane, WA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Kootenai County, ID, Shoshone County, ID

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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 Coeur d'Alene River at Enaville (ENVI1).

Action stage: 71 ft
Minor stage: 72 ft
Moderate stage: 75 ft
Major stage: 77 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12413000, 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at Mar 15, 6:06 PM PDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 6:06 PM PDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 5:16 PM PDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
516 PM PDT WED MAR 15 2017

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

0400 PM     FLOOD            1 WNW POTLATCH          46.93N 116.92W
03/15/2017                   LATAH              ID   PUBLIC

            FLANAGAN CREEK ROAD FLOODED. VEHICLE STALLED
            IN FLOOD WATER. REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

&&

NWS SPOKANE WA
IRIS SYSTEM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 11:12 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	OTX	Whitman	24 hr
Mar 16, 12:16 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Spokane	24 hr
Mar 16, 12:20 PM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	OTX	Asotin, Ferry, Garfield, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane and 2 more	72 hr
Mar 16, 12:16 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Lewis, Nez Perce	24 hr
Mar 16, 12:16 PM PDT	River Flood Watch	OTX	Benewah, Kootenai	24 hr

Nearby

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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.