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River Flood Warning 10, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

March 9, 2023Monterey County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this river flood warning at Mar 9, 2023, 2:20 PM PST for Monterey County, California. It took effect at Mar 10, 2023, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2023, 2:20 PM PST (22:20 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 10, 2023, 10:00 AM PST
Expired
Mar 10, 2023, 8:24 PM PST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Monterey County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 Carmel River at Robles Del Rio (RDRC1). The gauge peaked at 8.42 ft at Mar 10, 2023, 12:00 PM PST.

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Action stage
7.5 ft
Minor stage
8.5 ft
Moderate stage
11 ft
Major stage
13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11143200, 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 Mar 9, 1:24 PM PST, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 1:24 PM PST, 56 minutes before
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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.