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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Mar 3, 2008, 4:30 AM CST for Collin County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 3, 2008, 7:28 AM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2008, 4:30 AM CST (10:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2008, 7:28 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 1:25 PM CST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Collin County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point East Fork Trinity River at McKinney (MCKT2).
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 20 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08059000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 3, 4:16 AM CST, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 4:16 AM CST, 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 416 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 .DISCUSSION... THE COLD FRONT HAS BEEN ADVANCING SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN WE HAD EARLIER EXPECTED AS WAS ALONG A BONHAM...TO HILLSBORO...GATESVILLE LINE AS OF 10Z. FORECAST HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE A LITTLE TRICKY AS THE 12Z TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY BE THE HIGHS IN MOST AREAS TODAY. IT WILL BE WINDY TODAY BEHIND THE FRONT WITH NORTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH POSSIBLE. THUS WE WILL KEEP THE WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 6 PM. HAVE REMOVED THE WESTERN TIER OF COUNTIES FROM THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT HAVE KEPT THE REST FOR THROUGH MORNING HOURS. THE UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AS OF 10Z WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVES EAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AND INTO SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AS THE LOW MOVES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...TEMPERATURES ALOFT WILL COOL SIGNIFICANTLY...AND SOME OF THE RAIN SHOULD MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD. HAVE PLACED RAIN/SNOW MIX ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN ZONES FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND KEPT THE NORTH OF I-20 AND JUST SNOW ALONG THE RED RIVER TONIGHT. WE COULD SEE SOME 1 INCH ACCUMULATIONS ON ELEVATED AND GRASSY SURFACES NEAR THE RED RIVER...BUT NO SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED...SO WE WILL NOT ISSUE A SNOW ADVISORY AT THIS TIME. AFTER A COLD START...TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE TUESDAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. AND WE SHOULD SEE SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. DRY WEATHER IS THEN EXPECTED FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. #58 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 45 30 56 38 63 / 100 50 0 0 5 WACO, TX 55 32 62 40 71 / 100 10 0 0 5 PARIS, TX 52 28 49 30 58 / 100 60 10 0 10 DENTON, TX 43 27 56 36 63 / 100 50 0 0 5 MCKINNEY, TX 46 30 56 35 61 / 100 50 10 0 5 DALLAS, TX 47 32 55 38 63 / 100 40 0 0 5 TERRELL, TX 55 31 56 37 64 / 100 40 10 0 5 CORSICANA, TX 61 32 58 37 67 / 100 20 0 0 5 TEMPLE, TX 57 33 64 41 71 / 100 10 0 0 5 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL NOON CST TODAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ092>095-103>107-118>123-133>135. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175. && 58/99
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 4:02 AM CST, 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 402 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041200- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL- NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS- LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 402 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH 6 PM DUE TO NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING UP TO 40 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF A GAINESVILLE TO CLEBURNE TO ATHENS LINE THROUGH NOON. 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NOON ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS TO 60 MPH ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND AN INCH OR LESS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON ELEVATED AND GRASSY SURFACES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. SCHULTZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:29 AM CST, 2 hours 1 minute before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:05 AM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
305 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
TXZ142-031000-
MILLS TX-
305 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
CENTRAL MILLS COUNTY
AT 305 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHLAND SPRINGS...MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GOLDTHWAITE AND MULLIN.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
PEA-MARBLE SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3142 9872 3141 9884 3146 9900 3148 9900
3153 9894 3162 9879 3165 9842 3140 9845
3129 9859
TIME...MOT...LOC 0905Z 247DEG 25KT 3142 9906Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:21 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 321 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 TXZ130-141-030945- ERATH TX-COMANCHE TX- 321 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... CENTRAL COMANCHE COUNTY ERATH COUNTY AT 321 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMANCHE...AND 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COMANCHE...BOTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DE LEON...COMANCHE... GUSTINE...DUBLIN AND STEPHENVILLE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PEA-MARBLE SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3247 9807 3210 9790 3193 9852 3209 9862 TIME...MOT...LOC 0921Z 242DEG 42KT 3205 9847
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:44 AM CST, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
344 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
TXZ143-031015-
HAMILTON TX-
344 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
HAMILTON COUNTY
AT 344 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF GOLDTHWAITE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HAMILTON AND HICO.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
PEA-MARBLE SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3144 9828 3155 9835 3161 9841 3163 9841
3184 9819 3185 9816 3186 9817 3199 9803
3170 9778
TIME...MOT...LOC 0944Z 238DEG 35KT 3149 9839Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:48 AM CST, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 348 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 TXZ156-157-031015- CORYELL TX-LAMPASAS TX- 348 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY NORTHEASTERN LAMPASAS COUNTY AT 348 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTH OF LAMPASAS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PEA-SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3158 9792 3121 9771 3121 9824 3138 9831 TIME...MOT...LOC 0948Z 252DEG 37KT 3132 9818
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:50 AM CST, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
350 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
TXZ130>132-031015-
HOOD TX-ERATH TX-SOMERVELL TX-
350 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EAST CENTRAL ERATH COUNTY
SOUTHERN HOOD COUNTY
SOMERVELL COUNTY
AT 350 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE...MOVING EAST
AT 40 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GLEN ROSE...GRANBURY AND
DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
PEA-SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3251 9763 3219 9767 3219 9770 3215 9775
3210 9817 3228 9820
TIME...MOT...LOC 0950Z 261DEG 38KT 3220 9808The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 6:26 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 6:48 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 7:18 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 7:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 8:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 8:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 8:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 9:06 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland, Stephens, Young | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 9:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 9:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 10:03 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 11:07 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Wise | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 11:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 55 min |
| Mar 2, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 12:09 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Wise | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 12:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 64 min |
| Mar 3, 12:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 12:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Denton, Grayson | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 2:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Brown | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 3:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 3:21 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 3:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 3:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 3:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 25 min |
| Mar 3, 4:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 23 min |
| Mar 3, 4:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan | 62 min |
| Mar 3, 5:13 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 5:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 5:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 67 min |
| Mar 3, 5:45 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 5:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 6:01 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 6:21 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 6:55 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 25 hr |
| Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 29 hr |
| Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 25 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell, Falls, McLennan | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST | Snow Advisory | FWD | Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 23 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 34 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.