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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1053 PM PDT FRI MAR 13 2026
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE WA HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN WASHINGTON...
NEWAUKUM RIVER NEAR CHEHALIS AFFECTING LEWIS COUNTY.
.THIS IS A RE-ISSUANCE OF THE PREVIOUS FLOOD WARNING, BUT UPDATED
WITH THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES OR DRIVE
CARS THROUGH FLOODED AREAS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY SATURDAY MORNING AT 700 AM PDT.
WAC041-141400-
/O.NEW.KSEW.FL.W.0013.260314T0553Z-260315T0409Z/
/NEWW1.1.ER.260313T2133Z.260314T0600Z.260314T1908Z.NO/
1053 PM PDT FRI MAR 13 2026
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING TO LATE TOMORROW
EVENING...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...NEWAUKUM RIVER NEAR CHEHALIS.
* WHEN...FROM THIS EVENING TO LATE TOMORROW EVENING.
* IMPACTS...AT 202.5 FEET, FLOOD WATERS WILL INUNDATE MANY ROADS AND
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL AREAS ALONG THE NEWAUKUM RIVER AND ITS
FORKS. FLOODING IN SOME AREAS MAY BE DEEP AND HAZARDOUS
ESPECIALLY NEAR RIVERS. IMPACTED ROADWAYS AND SURROUNDING AREAS
INCLUDE JACKSON HWY. AND TUNE, RUSH, SOMMERVILLE, GRIEL, HAMILTON,
TAUSCHER, GUERRIER, KIRKLAND, MACOMBER, RICE, SENN, LUCAS CREEK,
MIDDLE FORK AND NORTH FORK ROADS. A STAGE OF 202.5 FEET ON THE
NEWAUKUM ROUGHLY CORRESPONDS TO PHASE 2 FLOOD IN THE LEWIS COUNTY
FLOOD SYSTEM.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 9:45 PM PDT FRIDAY THE STAGE WAS 203.9 FEET.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 202.5 FEET.
- RECENT ACTIVITY...THE MAXIMUM RIVER STAGE IN THE 24 HOURS
ENDING AT 9:45 PM PDT FRIDAY WAS 203.9 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE TO A CREST OF 204.1
FEET LATE THIS EVENING. IT WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE
EARLY TOMORROW AFTERNOON.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4657 12248 4652 12289 4662 12305 4675 12295
4668 12286 4676 12264
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