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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1146 AM PDT FRI MAR 28 2025
...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.
.CONTINUED RAIN OVER THE SOUTH SLOPES OF THE OLYMPICS WILL DRIVE THE
SKOKOMISH RIVER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT.
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.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY THIS EVENING AT 800 PM PDT.
WAC045-290300-
/O.NEW.KSEW.FL.W.0011.250328T2300Z-250330T0600Z/
/SRPW1.1.ER.250329T0035Z.250329T0600Z.250329T2103Z.NO/
1146 AM PDT FRI MAR 28 2025
...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TOMORROW
EVENING...
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...SKOKOMISH RIVER AT POTLATCH.
* WHEN...FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO LATE TOMORROW EVENING.
* 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 11:30 AM PDT FRIDAY THE STAGE WAS 16.1 FEET.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 16.5 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON TO 16.9 FEET LATE THIS EVENING. IT WILL THEN FALL
BELOW FLOOD STAGE EARLY TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO 15.5 FEET LATE
MONDAY MORNING. IT WILL RISE TO 15.7 FEET LATE MONDAY
EVENING. IT WILL THEN FALL AGAIN AND REMAIN BELOW FLOOD
STAGE.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF
16.8 FEET ON 11/23/1990.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
LAT...LON 4733 12310 4728 12316 4733 12333 4734 12325
4732 12319 4735 12315
JD
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