Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 8 months ago
Amid other flood concerns across Washington due to a new atmospheric river moving in, evacuations are underway due to a levee failure in King County.
Transcript
00:00We got another mess on our hands this week with a new atmospheric river event and between the two a flash flood warning has just been issued for west central portions of King County south of downtown Seattle as we're looking at the Green River flooding right now with a levee break.
00:13Yeah this is something that was cited in the National Weather Service flash flood warning saying that this levee failure was part of the reason for this warning about information coming from county dispatch so we're going to continue to monitor this situation of course but it's not the only flooding concern right now.
00:30That's true an imminent problem though for about 46,000 people many evacuations are in progress there in that portion of King County which is home to Seattle south of the city but more heavy rains coming in Anna.
00:42Yeah so beyond the flash flood warning we have regular flood launches and warnings out as well as this new atmospheric river event moves in the good news rainfall totals are less this is not looking like an exact repeat of last week.
00:55It will still be impactful with wind kind of more of a three-dimensional storm yeah we got the snow as well it'll be a bigger story this time around compared to the last.
Comments

Recommended