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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Salt Lake City, UT
NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2023, 4:38 PM MDT for Washington County, Utah. It took effect at Mar 15, 2023, 10:33 PM MDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2023, 4:38 PM MDT (22:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2023, 10:33 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2023, 12:07 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Salt Lake City, UT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Moderate
County Washington County, UT
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Virgin River near Bloomington (VRBU1).
- Action stage
- 15 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 17 ft
- Major stage
- 17.4 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 09413200, 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 Salt Lake City, UT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 15, 4:14 PM MDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 4:14 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 15, 9:20 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 5 hr |
| Mar 15, 9:58 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | Iron, Kane, Washington | 22 hr |
| Mar 15, 10:30 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | Kane, Washington | 17 hr |
| Mar 15, 12:32 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | SLC | Washington | 12 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | SLC | Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 5:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SLC | Washington | 5 hr |
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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.