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WGUS46 KMFR 160032
FLWMFR
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
532 PM PDT SAT MAR 15 2025
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MEDFORD OR HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN OREGON...
SOUTH FORK COQUILLE RIVER AT MYRTLE POINT AFFECTING COOS COUNTY.
FOR THE SOUTH FORK COQUILLE RIVER...INCLUDING MYRTLE POINT...MINOR
FLOODING IS FORECAST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED SUNDAY MORNING AT 615 AM PDT.
ORC011-161315-
/O.NEW.KMFR.FL.W.0009.250316T2000Z-250318T0156Z/
/MYPO3.1.ER.250316T2030Z.250317T0000Z.250317T1355Z.NO/
532 PM PDT SAT MAR 15 2025
..FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO MONDAY EVENING
..REPLACES RIVER FLOOD WATCH
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...SOUTH FORK COQUILLE RIVER AT MYRTLE POINT.
* WHEN...FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO MONDAY EVENING.
* IMPACTS...AT 33.0 FEET, THE SOUTH FORK COQUILLE RIVER IS AT FLOOD
STAGE. EXPECT FLOODING OF ROADS WEST OF THE SPRUCE STREET BRIDGE
AND SIGNIFICANT PASTURE AND AGRICULTURAL LAND FLOODING.
AT 35.0 FEET, EXPECT FLOODING ALONG SOME SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 42
DOWNSTREAM FROM MYRTLE POINT AND ALONG THE HIGHWAY TO POWERS.
WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF AGRICULTURAL LAND CAN BE EXPECTED.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 4:20 PM PDT SATURDAY THE STAGE WAS 20.9 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 35.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE EARLY SUNDAY
AFTERNOON, THEN PEAK AT 34.7 FEET SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE
FALLING BELOW FLOOD STAGE DURING MONDAY MORNING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 33.0 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
35.3 FEET ON 11/21/2012.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
FLD OBSERVED FORECASTS (5 PM PDT)
LOCATION STG STG DAY/TIME SUN MON TUE
SOUTH FORK COQUILLE RIVER
MYRTLE POINT 33.0 20.9 SAT 4 PM PDT 34.7 30.7 28.3
LAT...LON 4307 12417 4308 12414 4302 12408 4287 12406
4293 12417
MAS
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