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River Flood Warning 4, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

February 13, 2025Monterey County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2025, 8:51 AM PST for Monterey County, California. It took effect at Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2025, 8:51 AM PST (16:51 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Feb 13, 2025, 2:28 PM PST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Monterey County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Carmel River at Robles Del Rio (RDRC1).

Action stage
7.5 ft
Minor stage
8.5 ft
Moderate stage
11 ft
Major stage
13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 11143200, 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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 13, 3:25 AM PST, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:25 AM PST, 5 hours 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 13, 8:36 AM PST, 15 minutes before
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Local storm report, Feb 13, 8:47 AM PST, 4 minutes before
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Local storm report, Feb 13, 8:51 AM PST, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 12, 10:25 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz5 hr
Feb 12, 11:04 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSanta Clara, Santa Cruz4 hr
Feb 12, 11:58 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara16 hr
Feb 13, 12:32 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRAlameda9 hr
Feb 13, 12:41 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRCity and County of San Francisco, San Mateo16 hr
Feb 13, 12:43 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRCity and County of San Francisco15 hr
Feb 13, 12:52 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMarin, Sonoma15 hr
Feb 13, 12:57 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSonoma15 hr
Feb 13, 1:09 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRNapa, Sonoma15 hr
Feb 13, 1:17 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMonterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz23 hr
Feb 13, 1:27 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMonterey19 hr
Feb 13, 1:51 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRAlameda, Contra Costa18 hr
Feb 13, 3:17 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz6 hr
Feb 13, 3:20 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTRSanta Clara, Santa Cruz6 hr
Feb 13, 3:44 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSan Benito, Santa Clara12 hr
Feb 13, 4:36 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTRSan Mateo3 hr
Feb 13, 5:28 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRMonterey, San Benito12 hr
Feb 13, 6:08 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementMTR37 min
Feb 13, 6:35 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTRSonoma44 hr
Feb 13, 7:53 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTRAlameda14 hr
Feb 13, 8:31 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTRSanta Cruz3 hr
Feb 13, 9:14 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz3 hr
Feb 13, 9:19 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSanta Clara, Santa Cruz8 hr
Feb 13, 11:31 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRAlameda6 hr
Feb 13, 11:57 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTRSan Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in California, 2025Every river flood warning 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.