River Flood Warning 40, NWS Seattle, WA

Issued

Dec 9, 2025, 3:40 AM PST (11:40 UTC)

Expired

Dec 30, 2025, 3:40 AM PST

In force

21 days

Issued by

NWS Seattle, WA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Moderate

County Thurston County, WA

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 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.

Written for the forecast point Skookumchuck River near Bucoda (BCDW1). The gauge peaked at 213.97 ft at Dec 11, 2025, 12:00 AM PST.

Action stage

209.5 ft

Minor stage

211.5 ft

Moderate stage

213 ft

Major stage

215 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 12026400, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

NWS Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 9, 1:33 AM PST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

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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.