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River Flood Warning 30, NWS Sacramento, CA

February 13, 2017San Joaquin County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2017, 8:54 AM PST for San Joaquin County, California. It took effect at Feb 15, 2017, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2017, 8:54 AM PST (16:54 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 15, 2017, 1:00 AM PST
Expired: Feb 14, 2017, 8:54 AM PST
In force
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County San Joaquin County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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 San Joaquin River at Vernalis (VNSC1). The gauge peaked at 29.19 ft at Feb 15, 2017, 6:00 AM PST.

Action stage: 24.5 ft
Minor stage: 29 ft
Moderate stage: 32 ft
Major stage: 37.3 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11303500, 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 13, 8:40 AM PST, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 8:40 AM PST, 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 12, 4:35 PM PST	Flash Flood Warning	STO	Butte	46 hr
Feb 13, 2:06 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Tehama	24 hr
Feb 13, 2:06 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Tehama	67 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.