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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Pendleton, OR

February 23, 2025Wheeler County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this river flood warning at Feb 23, 2025, 9:08 PM PST for Wheeler County, Oregon. It took effect at Feb 24, 2025, 2:31 PM PST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 2025, 9:08 PM PST (05:08 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 24, 2025, 2:31 PM PST
Expired: Feb 24, 2025, 7:40 PM PST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wheeler County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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 John Day River at Service Creek (SERO3). The gauge peaked at 11.90 ft at Feb 25, 2025, 10:00 AM PST.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 11.5 ft
Moderate stage: 12.5 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14046500, 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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 23, 3:01 PM PST, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 3:01 PM PST, 6 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 23, 8:40 PM PST, 28 minutes before

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        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 10:51 PM PST	River Flood Warning	PDT	Umatilla	14 hr
Feb 24, 3:35 AM PST	High Wind Warning	PDT	Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Jefferson, Morrow, Sherman and 2 more	36 hr
Feb 24, 3:35 AM PST	Wind Advisory	PDT	Gilliam, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Wasco	39 hr
Feb 24, 3:28 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Franklin	32 min
Feb 24, 3:43 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	PDT	Columbia, Franklin, Walla Walla	47 min

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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.