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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Portland, OR

January 18, 2017Tillamook County, Oregon

NWS Portland, OR issued this river flood warning at Jan 18, 2017, 4:26 AM PST for Tillamook County, Oregon. It took effect at Jan 18, 2017, 9:00 AM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 2017, 4:26 AM PST (12:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 18, 2017, 9:00 AM PST
Expired: Jan 19, 2017, 1:00 AM PST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Tillamook County, OR

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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 Wilson River near Tillamook (TLMO3). The gauge peaked at 11.81 ft at Jan 18, 2017, 11:00 AM PST.

Action stage: 10.5 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 15.5 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14301500, 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 Jan 17, 3:27 PM PST, 12 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 3:27 PM PST, 12 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 2:46 AM PST	Coastal Flood Advisory	PQR		5 hr
Jan 18, 4:35 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Clatsop, Tillamook	36 hr
Jan 18, 9:09 AM PST	Gale Warning	PQR		6 hr
Jan 18, 11:29 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PQR	Benton, Polk	34 hr
Jan 18, 12:34 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PQR	Benton, Clackamas, Columbia, Linn, Marion, Multnomah and 3 more	277 days
Jan 18, 2:57 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	PQR		45 hr
Jan 18, 2:57 PM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PQR		3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 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.