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River Flood Warning 40, NWS Sacramento, CA

February 19, 2017Butte County, Glenn County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 19, 2017, 8:51 AM PST for Butte County, Glenn County, California. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 2017, 8:51 AM PST (16:51 UTC)
Expired: Feb 20, 2017, 4:00 AM PST
In force: 19 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 16:54 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 Hamilton City (HAMC1).

Action stage: 142 ft
Minor stage: 147 ft
Moderate stage: 149.2 ft
Major stage: 150.2 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 19, 5:24 AM PST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 5:24 AM PST, 3 hours 27 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 19, 4:08 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	STO		3 days
Feb 19, 4:30 AM PST	High Wind Watch	STO		11 hr
Feb 19, 4:30 AM PST	Wind Advisory	STO		36 hr
Feb 19, 3:18 PM PST	High Wind Warning	STO		27 hr
Feb 19, 3:24 PM PST	River Flood Warning	STO	Stanislaus	10 days

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.