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River Flood Warning 23, NWS Sacramento, CA

February 7, 2017Tehama County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 7, 2017, 9:49 AM PST for Tehama County, California. It took effect at Feb 7, 2017, 11:30 AM PST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 7, 2017, 9:49 AM PST (17:49 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 7, 2017, 11:30 AM PST
Expired: Feb 8, 2017, 9:40 AM PST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Tehama County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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 Sacramento River at Red Bluff Diversion Dam (RDBC1).

Action stage: 252.5 ft
Minor stage: 255.5 ft
Moderate stage: 257.6 ft
Major stage: 261.6 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 Feb 7, 3:35 AM PST, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 7, 3:35 AM PST, 6 hours 14 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
Feb 6, 4:35 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Shasta	40 min
Feb 6, 5:53 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	STO	Shasta	52 min
Feb 6, 9:07 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Tehama	5 days
Feb 7, 2:14 AM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Glenn	10 days
Feb 7, 4:20 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	STO	Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn and 15 more	36 hr
Feb 7, 9:26 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	STO	Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado and 17 more	6 days
Feb 7, 10:02 AM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Lake	31 days
Feb 7, 2:00 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Tehama	15 hr

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.