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River Flood Warning 67, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 27, 2008Denton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 27, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for Denton County, Texas. It took effect at May 27, 2008, 8:22 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
In effect from: May 27, 2008, 8:22 PM CDT
Expired: May 28, 2008, 8:58 AM CDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Denton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Denton Creek near Justin (DCJT2). The gauge peaked at 14.21 ft at May 27, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 15 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08053500, 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 27, 6:26 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 6:26 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
311 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0250 PM     FLASH FLOOD      CORSICANA               32.08N  96.47W
05/27/2008                   NAVARRO            TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

            APPROXIMATELY 12 VEHICLES STRANDED

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
331 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

TXZ159-272100-
MCLENNAN TX-
331 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  MCLENNAN COUNTY

AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED AN
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CAPABLE OF WINDS TO 50 MPH ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF CLIFTON TO 10 MILES EAST OF
ROBINSON...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 24 MPH. 50 MPH WINDS HAVE BEEN
REPORTED IN WACO WITH THIS BOUNDARY.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE BELLMEAD...BEVERLY
HILLS...CRAWFORD...HALLSBURG...HEWITT...LACY-LAKEVIEW...LORENA...
MART...MCGREGOR...MOODY...NORTHCREST...ROBINSON...WACO...WEST AND
WOODWAY.

OTHERWISE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COUNTY WILL BE
CAPABLE OF SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL.

LAT...LON 3159 9760 3180 9719 3181 9716 3182 9714
      3186 9704 3181 9699 3177 9697 3171 9692
      3154 9681 3126 9735
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 063DEG 21KT 3174 9741 3145 9698

SCHULTZ

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

TXZ144-272115-
BOSQUE TX-
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL BOSQUE COUNTY

AT 349 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF CLIFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 19
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLIFTON.

HAIL INCH HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3202 9748 3202 9745 3196 9741 3194 9742
      3193 9742 3189 9737 3188 9738 3186 9735
      3181 9731 3172 9769 3183 9774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2049Z 242DEG 17KT 3179 9763

SCHULTZ

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

TXZ144-272115-
BOSQUE TX-
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL BOSQUE COUNTY

AT 349 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF CLIFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 19
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLIFTON.

HALF INCH HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3202 9748 3202 9745 3196 9741 3194 9742
      3193 9742 3189 9737 3188 9738 3186 9735
      3181 9731 3172 9769 3183 9774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2049Z 242DEG 17KT 3179 9763

SCHULTZ

Special weather statement, May 27, 4:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 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
May 27, 7:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	24 min
May 27, 8:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Montague	3 hr
May 27, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	37 min
May 27, 8:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	30 min
May 27, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	66 min
May 27, 9:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	2 hr
May 27, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	31 min
May 27, 9:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	27 min
May 27, 9:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Grayson	3 hr
May 27, 9:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	64 min
May 27, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	32 min
May 27, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	37 min
May 27, 10:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	3 hr
May 27, 11:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	28 min
May 27, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Denton, Rockwall, Wise	37 min
May 27, 11:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Wise	2 hr
May 27, 11:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	34 min
May 27, 11:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	2 hr
May 27, 12:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	113 min
May 27, 1:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	117 min
May 27, 1:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	2 hr
May 27, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	32 min
May 27, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	23 min
May 27, 1:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	2 hr
May 27, 2:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	116 min
May 27, 2:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	2 hr
May 27, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	34 min
May 27, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	31 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	29 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	26 min
May 27, 3:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Parker	113 min
May 27, 3:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	2 hr
May 27, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	29 min
May 27, 3:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood	78 min
May 27, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	26 min
May 27, 3:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	114 min
May 27, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	25 min
May 27, 3:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	2 hr
May 27, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	28 min
May 27, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Milam	31 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.