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Dec. 4—Rain, heavy rain, heavy rain, rain, rain, rain, rain and rain. That's the National Weather Service's forecast for Monday to Thursday, day and night, out of the Chehalis-Centralia Airport.
The Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority is a state government program that oversees the watershed of the Chehalis River in Washington state.The commission focuses on flood control and river health, as well as habitat restoration, with particular attention to native plants, fish, and other aquatic species.
The Chehalis River at Centralia is forecast to reach the "minor" flood stage between 4 and 10 p.m. on Dec. 5. Downstream, at Grand Mound, the Chehalis River could reach "moderate" flooding on ...
Two minor December 1955 inundations occurred due to a quick rise in the water of the Chehalis River. The second event was due to a combination of melting snow and near-record rain. [43] [44] The Chehalis River crested at 68.5 feet (20.9 m). [45] A wind event, described as a "twister", hit the area the day after the river began to recede. [46]
The Chehalis River (/ ʃ ə ˈ h eɪ l ɪ s / ⓘ shə-HAY-liss) [6] is a river in Washington in the United States. It originates in several forks in southwestern Washington, flows east, then north, then west, in a large curve, before emptying into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean.
Heavy flooding caused the temporary shutdown of a section of Interstate 5 south of Olympia, Washington, on Friday, January 7, as the Chehalis River Basin grew swollen from recent torrential rains ...
Southwest Washington saw significant impacts. Near Centralia and Chehalis, Interstate 5 was covered by up to 10 feet (3.0 m) of water and the dike built to protect the Chehalis-Centralia Airport overflowed. The Skookumchuck River reached a new record high discharge, with the Chehalis River and Cowlitz River also getting well above flood stage. [15]
The Newaukum River is a tributary of the Chehalis River in the U.S. state of Washington. It has three main branches, the North Fork, South Fork, and Middle Fork Newaukum Rivers. The length of the three forks and the mainstem river is 56.7 miles (91.2 km). [3] The river's name comes from the Upper Chehalis word náwaq w əm, meaning "big prairie ...