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River Flood Warning 6, NWS Pendleton, OR

March 15, 2017Umatilla County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2017, 9:41 AM PDT for Umatilla County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 15, 2017, 8:22 PM PDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2017, 9:41 AM PDT (16:41 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 15, 2017, 8:22 PM PDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2017, 3:29 PM PDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Pendleton, OR
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Umatilla County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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 Umatilla River near Gibbon (GIBO3). The gauge peaked at 7.83 ft at Mar 16, 2017, 5:00 AM PDT.

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Action stage
6 ft
Minor stage
7 ft
Moderate stage
9 ft
Major stage
11.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14020000, 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 15, 8:12 AM PDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 8:12 AM PDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 2:24 PM PDTRiver Flood WatchPDTBenton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla41 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2017Every river flood warning in 2017

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.