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River Flood Warning 10, NWS Medford, OR

March 15, 2025Douglas County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this river flood warning at Mar 15, 2025, 10:42 PM PDT for Douglas County, Oregon. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 12:31 PM PDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2025, 10:42 PM PDT (05:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2025, 12:31 PM PDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2025, 5:36 AM PDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Douglas County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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 Elk creek near Drain (ECDO3).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14322000, 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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 15, 9:41 PM PDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 9:41 PM PDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:24 PM PDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Medford, OR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 5:32 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Coos	53 hr
Mar 16, 3:14 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFR		38 hr
Mar 16, 5:03 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and 1 more	42 hr
Mar 16, 5:46 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Coos	32 hr
Mar 16, 5:52 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	35 hr
Mar 16, 7:36 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Coos, Douglas	5 hr
Mar 16, 8:21 AM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	7 hr
Mar 16, 10:48 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	18 hr
Mar 16, 10:54 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Josephine	10 hr
Mar 16, 12:17 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry	12 hr
Mar 16, 12:33 PM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	MFR	Coos, Douglas	6 hr
Mar 16, 1:01 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	24 hr
Mar 16, 3:15 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	MFR	Douglas	21 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.