Okanogan Highlands
Flood Watch Statement as of 9:25 am PDT on May 22, 2013
The National Weather Service in Spokane, WA has issued a
* Flood Watch for
the Okanogan river near Tonasket
* from Thursday afternoon to Wednesday may 29.
* At 8:15 am Wednesday the stage was 13.9 feet.
* Minor flooding is possible.
* Flood stage is 15.00 feet.
* Forecast... flood stage may be reached by early Thursday afternoon.
Lat... Lon 4895 11945 4893 11932 4825 11951 4832 11968 4895 11945
* at 18.0 feet... major flooding of surrounding cropland is likely.
Some homes and buildings adjacent to the river will experience some
basement and first floor flooding.
* At 17.5 feet... water will be behind the levee due to seepage,
flooding the motocross track downstream of the city of Okanogan.
* At 17.0 feet... low lying fields and pasture land in the flood plain
along the Okanogan River Valley, from Oroville to Okanogan, will be
flooded.
* At 15.0 feet... minor flooding of low-lying areas is likely between
Oroville and Tonasket.
Record Report Statement as of 01:26 am PDT on May 23, 2013
... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Wenatchee WA pangborn
field...
a record rainfall of 0.55 inch(es) was set at Wenatchee WA pangborn
field yesterday. This breaks the old record of 0.36 set in 2006.
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