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River Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 16, 2009Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 16, 2009, 8:56 AM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It took effect at May 16, 2009, 11:44 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 2009, 8:56 AM CDT (13:56 UTC)
In effect from: May 16, 2009, 11:44 AM CDT
Expired: May 17, 2009, 8:02 AM CDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Cowleech Fork Sabine River at Greenville (GNVT2).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08017200, 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 16, 6:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 6:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 3:20 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
320 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2009

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-170830-
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-
320 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY...
AND MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST 1/3 TONIGHT. SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL... LOCALIZED FLOODING AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE THE
MAIN HAZARDS TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ISOLATED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED ANYWHERE IN NORTH
TEXAS TODAY...AND MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST THIRD TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 3:26 AM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
326 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2009

TXZ129-130-141-160930-
EASTLAND TX-ERATH TX-COMANCHE TX-
326 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY
  EASTLAND COUNTY
  ERATH COUNTY

AT 325 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN EASTLAND COUNTY AND
NORTHERN ERATH COUNTY...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CISCO...DE LEON...DUBLIN...
EASTLAND...GORMAN...RANGER...RISING STAR...STEPHENVILLE...HUCKABAY
AND MORGAN MILL.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM
THESE STORM.

LAT...LON 3251 9911 3251 9806 3211 9788 3192 9881
      3209 9889 3210 9910
TIME...MOT...LOC 0825Z 355DEG 21KT 3242 9847

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Montague	52 min
May 15, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Montague	31 min
May 15, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	33 min
May 16, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Montague	65 min
May 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Wise, Young	59 min
May 16, 1:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	67 min
May 16, 2:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	33 min
May 16, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Parker, Tarrant	57 min
May 16, 3:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Erath	64 min
May 16, 3:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
May 16, 4:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	112 min
May 16, 6:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	3 hr
May 16, 7:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	25 hr
May 16, 7:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
May 16, 11:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 16, 2:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	28 min
May 16, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	29 min
May 16, 2:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	17 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.