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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Reno, NV

March 13, 2023Plumas County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this river flood warning at Mar 13, 2023, 7:57 PM PDT for Plumas County, California. It took effect at Mar 14, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2023, 7:57 PM PDT (02:57 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired: Mar 18, 2023, 9:00 AM PDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Plumas County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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 Middle Fork Feather River near Portola (MFTC1).

Action stage: 4851 ft
Minor stage: 4852.5 ft
Moderate stage: 4853.5 ft
Major stage: 4855.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11392100, 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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 13, 2:46 PM PDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 2:46 PM PDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 1:26 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Lyon, Mineral	4 days
Mar 14, 1:26 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Churchill	31 days
Mar 14, 1:26 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Lassen	4 days

Nearby

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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.