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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Medford, OR

February 4, 2025Modoc County, California

NWS Medford, OR issued this river flood warning at Feb 4, 2025, 5:16 AM PST for Modoc County, California. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2025, 5:16 AM PST (13:16 UTC)
Expired: Feb 8, 2025, 2:53 AM PST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Medford, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Modoc County, CA

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Pit River near Canby (CNBC1). The gauge peaked at 11.14 ft at Feb 4, 2025, 10:00 PM PST.

Action stage: 7.5 ft
Minor stage: 8.5 ft
Moderate stage: 9 ft
Major stage: 10 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11348500, 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 Feb 3, 3:02 PM PST, 14 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 3:02 PM PST, 14 hours 14 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
Feb 3, 10:25 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath	47 hr
Feb 4, 3:02 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	MFR		47 hr
Feb 4, 1:18 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	MFR	Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake	32 hr
Feb 4, 1:18 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	MFR	Siskiyou	32 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.