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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
831 PM PST SUN FEB 18 2024
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EUREKA CA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN CALIFORNIA...
RUSSIAN RIVER NEAR HOPLAND AFFECTING MENDOCINO COUNTY.
FOR THE RUSSIAN RIVER...INCLUDING HOPLAND...MINOR FLOODING IS
FORECAST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WEATHER.GOV/EKA.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED MONDAY MORNING AT 700 AM PST.
CAC045-191500-
/O.NEW.KEKA.FL.W.0009.240219T0800Z-240219T1500Z/
/HOPC1.1.ER.240219T0900Z.240219T1200Z.240219T1400Z.NO/
831 PM PST SUN FEB 18 2024
..FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT TO TOMORROW MORNING
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...RUSSIAN RIVER NEAR HOPLAND.
* WHEN...FROM LATE TONIGHT TO TOMORROW MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 15.0 FEET, FLOODING OF HIGHWAY 175 IS EXPECTED AT THE
APPROACHES TO THE RUSSIAN RIVER BRIDGE. EXPECT FLOODING OF
CROPLAND ON THE RIGHT BANK OF RIVER.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 8:00 PM PST SUNDAY THE STAGE WAS 10.2 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 21.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE JUST AFTER
MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 15.6 FEET LATE TONIGHT. IT WILL THEN FALL
BELOW FLOOD STAGE TOMORROW MORNING TO 13.3 FEET LATE TOMORROW
EVENING. IT WILL RISE TO 13.5 FEET EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. IT
WILL THEN FALL TO 11.8 FEET TUESDAY AFTERNOON. IT WILL RISE
TO 12.1 FEET LATE TUESDAY EVENING. IT WILL THEN FALL AGAIN
AND REMAIN BELOW FLOOD STAGE.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 15.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
15.6 FEET ON 03/28/2012.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
FLD OBSERVED FORECASTS (8 PM PST)
LOCATION STG STG DAY/TIME MON TUE WED
RUSSIAN RIVER
HOPLAND 15.0 10.2 SUN 8 PM PST 13.4 12.1 8.0
LAT...LON 3896 12314 3904 12320 3913 12324 3917 12315
3909 12313 3894 12304
JJW
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