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River Flood Warning 1, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

January 3, 2023Sonoma County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this river flood warning at Jan 3, 2023, 4:24 PM PST for Sonoma County, California. It took effect at Jan 5, 2023, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2023, 4:24 PM PST (00:24 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 5, 2023, 10:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 5, 2023, 2:26 AM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Moderate

County Sonoma County, CA

The radar

The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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 Russian River at Guerneville (GUEC1).

Action stage
29 ft
Minor stage
32 ft
Moderate stage
35 ft
Major stage
40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11467002, 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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jan 3, 2:38 PM PST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:38 PM PST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 8:03 PM PSTHigh Surf WarningMTRMarin, Monterey, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Sonoma61 hr
Jan 3, 8:03 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTRMarin, Monterey, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Sonoma3 days
Jan 3, 8:42 PM PSTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMTRMarin, Napa, City and County of San Francisco, Sonoma38 hr
Jan 4, 3:50 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRContra Costa, Marin, Napa, City and County of San Francisco, Sonoma107 min
Jan 4, 3:56 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRCity and County of San Francisco, San Mateo42 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 2023Every river flood warning in 2023

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.