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River Flood Warning 65, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 15, 2008, 1:18 PM CDT for Milam County, Texas. It took effect at May 15, 2008, 8:03 PM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2008, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2008, 8:03 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2008, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Milam County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Little River near Rockdale (RLRT2). The gauge peaked at 31.71 ft at May 16, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT.
- Action stage
- 27 ft
- Minor stage
- 30 ft
- Moderate stage
- 33 ft
- Major stage
- 35 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08106350, 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, 12:45 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 12:45 PM CDT, 33 minutes 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, 12:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 7 hr |
| 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 |
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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.