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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Medford, OR

March 16, 2025Jackson County, Oregon

NWS Medford, OR issued this river flood warning at Mar 16, 2025, 5:30 PM PDT for Jackson County, Oregon. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2025, 5:30 PM PDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 9:08 PM PDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Jackson County, OR

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Rogue River near Eagle Point (EGLO3). The gauge peaked at 10.27 ft at Mar 16, 2025, 7:00 PM PDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12.8 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14339000, 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 16, 4:49 PM PDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 4:49 PM PDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:35 PM PDT, 2 hours 55 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 16, 7:00 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MFR	Coos, Douglas	11 hr
Mar 16, 8:14 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	MFR		24 hr
Mar 16, 8:14 PM PDT	Hazardous Seas Warning	MFR		3 hr
Mar 17, 2:28 PM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	MFR	Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath	23 hr
Mar 17, 2:42 PM PDT	Gale Watch	MFR		12 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.