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River Flood Warning 69, NWS Seattle, WA

December 17, 2025Lewis County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this river flood warning at Dec 17, 2025, 2:17 AM PST for Lewis County, Washington. It took effect at Dec 17, 2025, 10:02 AM PST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 17, 2025, 2:17 AM PST (10:17 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 17, 2025, 10:02 AM PST
Expired
Dec 18, 2025, 8:53 AM PST
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Lewis County, WA

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:21 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 Cowlitz River at Randle (RAWW1). The gauge peaked at 19.76 ft at Dec 19, 2025, 8:00 AM PST.

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Action stage
13.2 ft
Minor stage
18 ft
Moderate stage
20 ft
Major stage
22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 14231000, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 16, 3:51 PM PST, 10 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 3:51 PM PST, 10 hours 26 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 17, 2:11 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing19 hr
Dec 17, 2:14 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSnohomish38 hr
Dec 17, 2:14 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWKing38 hr
Dec 17, 2:14 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWSnohomish22 hr
Dec 17, 2:55 AM PSTGale WarningSEW12 hr
Dec 17, 2:55 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySEW4 days
Dec 17, 8:06 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWWhatcom15 hr
Dec 17, 8:44 AM PSTCoastal Flood AdvisorySEWSan Juan11 hr
Dec 17, 11:52 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisorySEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Whatcom31 hr
Dec 17, 1:09 PM PSTWind AdvisorySEWClallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more34 hr
Dec 17, 1:51 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEWThurston63 hr
Dec 17, 3:00 PM PSTGale WarningSEW37 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.