Severe Weather Alert

East Slopes Northern Cascades

Issued at: 9:25 am PDT on May 22, 2013, expires at: 12:57 PM PDT on May 29, 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.