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River Flood Warning 41, NWS Sacramento, CA

February 19, 2017Stanislaus County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 19, 2017, 3:24 PM PST for Stanislaus County, California. It took effect at Feb 20, 2017, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 9 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 19, 2017, 3:24 PM PST (23:24 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 20, 2017, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 1, 2017, 8:36 AM PST
In force
9 days
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Stanislaus County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 Tuolumne River at Modesto (MDSC1). The gauge peaked at 58.97 ft at Feb 22, 2017, 7:00 PM PST.

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Action stage
50.5 ft
Minor stage
55 ft
Moderate stage
66 ft
Major stage
67 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11290000, 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, 2:57 PM PST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 2:57 PM PST, 27 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 4:08 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSTO3 days
Feb 19, 4:30 AM PSTHigh Wind WatchSTO11 hr
Feb 19, 4:30 AM PSTWind AdvisorySTO36 hr
Feb 19, 8:51 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOButte, Glenn19 hr
Feb 19, 3:18 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningSTO27 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 2017Every 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.