River Flood Warning 71, NWS Seattle, WA

Issued

Dec 17, 2025, 1:51 PM PST (21:51 UTC)

In effect from

Dec 17, 2025, 3:56 PM PST

Expired

Dec 20, 2025, 5:10 AM PST

In force

61 hr

Issued by

NWS Seattle, WA

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

Minor

County Thurston County, WA

The Langley Hill radar (KLGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 211.08 ft at Dec 17, 2025, 7:00 PM 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 16, 3:51 PM PST, 22 hours 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.