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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Sacramento, CA

January 22, 2017Butte County, Glenn County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Jan 22, 2017, 9:11 AM PST for Butte County, Glenn County, California. It took effect at Jan 22, 2017, 11:00 PM PST. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 2017, 9:11 AM PST (17:11 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 22, 2017, 11:00 PM PST
Expired: Jan 24, 2017, 6:00 AM PST
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Butte County, CA, Glenn County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 Sacramento River at Ord Ferry (ORFC1).

Action stage: 110 ft
Minor stage: 114 ft
Moderate stage: 121.7 ft
Major stage: 124.8 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 22, 8:50 AM PST, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 8:50 AM PST, 21 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
Jan 21, 8:17 PM PST	High Wind Warning	STO		10 hr
Jan 21, 8:17 PM PST	Wind Advisory	STO		13 hr
Jan 22, 2:26 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Yuba	49 min
Jan 22, 3:20 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	El Dorado, Sacramento, Solano	40 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 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.