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River Flood Warning 9, NWS Sacramento, CA

March 13, 2023Tehama County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this river flood warning at Mar 13, 2023, 9:18 PM PDT for Tehama County, California. It took effect at Mar 14, 2023, 2:40 PM PDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2023, 9:18 PM PDT (04:18 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2023, 2:40 PM PDT
Expired: Apr 3, 2023, 9:18 PM PDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Tehama County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Sacramento River at Tehama Bridge (TEHC1).

Action stage: 206.5 ft
Minor stage: 209.5 ft
Moderate stage: 216.5 ft
Major stage: 217.5 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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 13, 1:57 PM PDT, 7 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:57 PM PDT, 7 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 13, 4:35 PM PDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 7:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO	Amador	57 min
Mar 13, 9:37 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	STO	Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento	21 days
Mar 14, 4:45 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn and 14 more	7 hr
Mar 14, 9:20 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	STO	Tehama	47 hr
Mar 14, 11:50 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra and 2 more	24 hr
Mar 14, 3:10 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	STO	Butte, Glenn	21 days
Mar 14, 4:44 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	STO	Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne	3 hr

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.