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River Flood Warning 55, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 18, 2008Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Apr 18, 2008, 2:45 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2008, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2008, 4:13 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 19, 2008, 8:38 AM CDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Trinity River at Dallas (DALT2).

Action stage: 29 ft
Minor stage: 30 ft
Moderate stage: 38 ft
Major stage: 40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08057000, 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 Apr 18, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 18, 11:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	29 min
Apr 17, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	55 min
Apr 17, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	37 min
Apr 17, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	48 min
Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	30 min
Apr 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	45 min
Apr 17, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	66 min
Apr 17, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	64 min
Apr 17, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
Apr 17, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	44 min
Apr 17, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	25 min
Apr 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	30 min
Apr 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	60 min
Apr 17, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	56 min
Apr 17, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	34 min
Apr 17, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	43 min
Apr 17, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	53 min
Apr 17, 9:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	116 min
Apr 17, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	61 min
Apr 17, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	56 min
Apr 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	64 min
Apr 17, 9:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	2 hr
Apr 17, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	61 min
Apr 17, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	61 min
Apr 17, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin, Hunt	27 min
Apr 17, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	34 min
Apr 17, 10:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	27 min
Apr 17, 10:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	118 min
Apr 17, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	58 min
Apr 17, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	29 min
Apr 17, 10:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	85 min
Apr 17, 11:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	27 min
Apr 17, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	53 min
Apr 17, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	48 min
Apr 18, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	37 min
Apr 18, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	33 min
Apr 18, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	31 min
Apr 18, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	25 min
Apr 18, 6:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	4 hr
Apr 18, 8:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	6 hr
Apr 18, 9:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	12 hr

Nearby

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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.