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Debris Flow in Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Debris Flow January 19, 2012 – January 20, 2012 · Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon

What the National Weather Service wrote

Heavy rains produced a landslide damaging one house on Rosewood Drive in Corvallis, Oregon. Benton Sheriff and Corvallis Police urged evacuation of 22 additional houses on Rosewood Drive and Rosewood Place due to unstable saturated ground.

The wider storm

Two strong and very moist Pacific weather systems brought widespread heavy rains to the Pacific Northwest. These heavy rains combined with melting snow to produce several landslides in western Oregon.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 358789. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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