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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

February 6, 2020Umatilla County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2020, 8:17 AM PST for Umatilla County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 6, 2020, 11:48 AM PST. It was in force for 50 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 6, 2020, 8:17 AM PST (16:17 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 6, 2020, 11:48 AM PST
Expired: Feb 8, 2020, 2:04 PM PST
In force: 50 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Umatilla County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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 Umatilla River at Pendleton (PDTO3).

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 12.3 ft
Moderate stage: 13.5 ft
Major stage: 17 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 6, 3:37 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:37 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 4:08 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Umatilla	3 days
Feb 6, 5:04 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Umatilla	12 hr
Feb 6, 10:43 AM PST	Areal Flood Warning	PDT	Umatilla	24 hr
Feb 6, 11:01 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	PDT	Union	12 hr
Feb 6, 1:16 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Union	42 hr
Feb 6, 11:28 AM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Walla Walla	69 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Oregon, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.