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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
629 PM PST SAT DEC 21 2024
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE WA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN WASHINGTON...
SKOKOMISH RIVER AT POTLATCH AFFECTING MASON COUNTY.
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 BY LATE TONIGHT AT 400 AM PST.
WAC045-221200-
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/SRPW1.1.ER.241222T0351Z.241222T0600Z.000000T0000Z.NO/
629 PM PST SAT DEC 21 2024
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...SKOKOMISH RIVER AT POTLATCH.
* WHEN...FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS...AT 16.5 FEET, THE SKOKOMISH RIVER WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD
FLOODING OF PASTURE LANDS, WITH WATER FLOWING QUICKLY OVER WEST
BOURGAULT ROAD AND SKOKOMISH VALLEY ROAD.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 5:30 PM PST SATURDAY THE STAGE WAS 16.4 FEET.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 16.5 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE RISING TO A CREST OF 16.6 FEET LATE
THIS EVENING. THE RIVER WILL FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE AGAIN
SUNDAY MORNING.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
16.5 FEET ON 01/07/2007.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4733 12310 4728 12316 4733 12333 4734 12325
4732 12319 4735 12315
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