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River Flood Watch 4, NWS Eureka, CA

December 22, 2025Mendocino County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this river flood watch at Dec 22, 2025, 11:15 PM PST for Mendocino County, California. It took effect at Dec 23, 2025, 9:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 22, 2025, 11:15 PM PST (07:15 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 23, 2025, 9:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 23, 2025, 2:01 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Mendocino County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 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 near Hopland (HOPC1). The gauge peaked at 18.04 ft at Dec 22, 2025, 4:00 AM PST.

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Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
23 ft
Major stage
26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11462500, 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 watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood watch went out at Dec 22, 2:57 PM PST, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 2:57 PM PST, 8 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 22, 11:18 PM PSTRiver Flood WatchEKAMendocino15 hr
Dec 23, 11:38 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningEKATrinity3 days

Nearby

River Flood Watches in California, 2025Every river flood watch in 2025

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.