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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Sacramento, CA

February 13, 2019Amador County, El Dorado County, Sacramento County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2019, 8:44 PM PST for Amador County, El Dorado County, Sacramento County, California. It took effect at Feb 14, 2019, 11:20 AM PST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2019, 8:44 PM PST (04:44 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 14, 2019, 11:20 AM PST
Expired
Feb 15, 2019, 9:00 AM PST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Amador County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Sacramento County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 Cosumnes River at Michigan Bar (MHBC1).

Action stage
7 ft
Minor stage
12 ft
Moderate stage
16 ft
Major stage
18 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11335000, 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, 3:52 PM PST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:52 PM PST, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 7:46 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTOButte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lake, Nevada and 8 more48 hr
Feb 13, 8:43 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOTehama21 days
Feb 14, 3:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSTO49 hr
Feb 14, 3:32 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOTehama29 hr
Feb 14, 3:32 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOButte, Glenn21 days
Feb 14, 7:40 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTOYuba50 min
Feb 14, 8:22 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTOCalaveras, Tuolumne38 min
Feb 14, 9:04 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTOCalaveras41 min
Feb 14, 9:11 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSTOAmador, Calaveras, El Dorado3 hr
Feb 14, 10:00 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOYolo14 hr
Feb 14, 10:00 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSTOYolo28 hr
Feb 14, 10:17 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTOCalaveras58 min
Feb 14, 10:26 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTOCalaveras49 min
Feb 14, 10:52 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSTOCalaveras, Tuolumne3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 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.