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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Pendleton, OR

March 16, 2017Walla Walla County, Washington

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Mar 16, 2017, 3:20 AM PDT for Walla Walla County, Washington. It took effect at Mar 16, 2017, 7:53 AM PDT. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2017, 3:20 AM PDT (10:20 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2017, 7:53 AM PDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2017, 3:47 PM PDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Walla Walla County, WA

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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 Walla Walla River near Touchet (TCHW1).

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 13 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14018500, 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 16, 2:30 AM PDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:30 AM PDT, 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 6:00 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Grant, Jefferson, Morrow, Wasco, Wheeler	41 hr
Mar 16, 6:00 AM PDT	River Flood Watch	PDT	Umatilla	15 hr
Mar 16, 11:24 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	PDT	Wheeler	4 days
Mar 16, 10:25 AM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Yakima	12 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2017 Every 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.