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River Flood Warning 63, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 15, 2008, 12:37 AM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2008, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2008, 7:14 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 05:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point White Rock Creek at Dallas (DWRT2).
- Action stage
- 78 ft
- Minor stage
- 84 ft
- Moderate stage
- 88 ft
- Major stage
- 90 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08057200, 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 May 15, 12:00 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 12:00 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 330 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...ALL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE TO DENTON TO PARIS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 42 min |
| May 14, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 40 min |
| May 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 30 min |
| May 14, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 41 min |
| May 14, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 37 min |
| May 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 25 min |
| May 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 30 min |
| May 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 62 min |
| May 14, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 39 min |
| May 14, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 28 min |
| May 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 51 min |
| May 14, 9:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| May 14, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 14, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 28 min |
| May 14, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Milam | 54 min |
| May 14, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 61 min |
| May 14, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Johnson, Rockwall | 64 min |
| May 14, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 54 min |
| May 14, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 48 min |
| May 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 56 min |
| May 14, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 43 min |
| May 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone | 2 hr |
| May 15, 12:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Robertson | 115 min |
| May 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 23 min |
| May 15, 12:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Leon | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 30 hr |
| May 15, 1:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 32 hr |
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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.