Full Notification

National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch and High Wind Warning for Clallam County until Wednesday morning.

High Wind Warning
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
322 PM PST SUN NOV 15 2009

...A SERIES OF STRONG SYSTEMS WILL GIVE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE COAST AND NORTH INTERIOR LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING...

.OVERVIEW...A DEEPENING WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO VANCOUVER ISLAND EARLY MONDAY AND WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A MUCH DEEPER AND DEVELOPING 975 MB LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. THE INITIAL WAVE THAT PASSES ON MONDAY WILL GIVE DAMAGING WINDS TO THE COAST AND NORTH INTERIOR. THE DEEPER LOW THAT PASSES LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL LIKELY GIVE EVEN STRONGER WINDS AND PRODUCE MORE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE OVER MUCH OF WESTERN WASHINGTON.

FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
958 AM PST SUN NOV 15 2009

.PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN OVER THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS AND NORTH CASCADES COULD DRIVE RIVERS IN THOSE AREAS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY MONDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT.

THE RIVER MOST LIKELY TO FLOOD IS THE SKOKOMISH RIVER...WHICH FLOWS OFF THE SOUTHEAST SLOPES OF THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS. THE SKOKOMISH RIVER COULD EXPERIENCE MAJOR FLOODING IN THIS EPISODE. OTHER RIVERS ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA ALSO FACE A THREAT OF FLOODING...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ATSOP...BOGACHIEL...ELWAH...AND DUNGENESS RIVERS.

FLOODING IN THE NORTH CASCADES RIVER BASINS IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. THE NOOKSACK RIVER IN WHATCOM COUNTY...WHICH FLOWS OFF THE SLOPES OF MOUNT BAKER...IS AT HIGHEST RISK. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE
HIGH ENOUGH TO ALSO PUSH THE RIVERS IN SKAGIT AND SNOHOMISH COUNTY TO NEAR FLOOD STAGE AS WELL.

RAINFALL WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE OVER THE OLYMPICS AND NORTH CASCADES TODAY THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...WITH PERIODS OF EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE OVER THE OLYMPICS MONDAY.