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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Seattle, WA

December 19, 2019Mason County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Dec 19, 2019, 10:16 PM PST for Mason County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 20, 2019, 2:32 AM PST. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 19, 2019, 10:16 PM PST (06:16 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 20, 2019, 2:32 AM PST
Expired
Dec 22, 2019, 10:45 AM PST
In force
56 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Mason County, WA

The radar

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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 Skokomish River near Potlatch (SRPW1). The gauge peaked at 17.57 ft at Dec 21, 2019, 4:00 AM PST.

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Action stage
15 ft
Minor stage
16.5 ft
Moderate stage
17.5 ft
Major stage
18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12061500, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 19, 2:00 PM PST, 8 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 2:00 PM PST, 8 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 20, 2:38 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySEW37 hr
Dec 20, 3:45 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing34 hr
Dec 20, 4:50 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWLewis35 hr
Dec 20, 5:26 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEWKing, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Thurston6 hr
Dec 20, 6:04 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWLewis24 hr
Dec 20, 6:17 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSEW28 hr
Dec 20, 10:30 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing22 hr
Dec 20, 11:33 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEWKing, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Thurston12 hr
Dec 20, 1:13 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisorySEW17 hr
Dec 20, 1:21 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEWKing, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Snohomish and 1 more12 hr
Dec 20, 2:41 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSnohomish29 hr
Dec 20, 2:41 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing47 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Washington, 2019Every river flood warning in 2019

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.