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The Seattle area will see another round of gusty winds and rain, with snow in the Cascade Mountains and freezing rain in the mountain passes.
The National Weather Service issued the flash flood warning on Monday due to a levee breach in Tukwila, a suburb of Seattle located in King County. An evacuation notice is in effect for parts of King County.
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning and new evacuation orders are now being issued for parts of King County, near Seattle, after a second levee breach in the region caused by historic flooding in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle experienced dramatically less rainfall and had only a few localized road floods. That's due to the city's unique geographic landscape.
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The NWS Seattle WA released a flood watch at 2:18 p.m. on Saturday valid from Monday 10 a.m. until Thursday 4 p.m. The watch is for Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pierce,
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The evacuation order was sent to about 1,100 homes and businesses east of the Green River in parts of Kent, Renton and Tukwila.
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