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River Flood Warning 57, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Aug 21, 2009, 7:37 AM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2009, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2009, 10:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 12:36 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). The gauge peaked at 86.00 ft at Aug 21, 2009, 8:00 AM CDT.
- 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 Aug 21, 6:49 AM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 6:49 AM CDT, 48 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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| Aug 20, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 41 min |
| Aug 20, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 10:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Lamar | 113 min |
| Aug 20, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 10:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lamar | 114 min |
| Aug 20, 11:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Fannin | 115 min |
| Aug 20, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Lamar | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 2:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 3:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 5:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 23 min |
| Aug 21, 5:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 6:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 6:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 109 min |
| Aug 21, 6:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 6:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 7:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 7:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Aug 21, 8:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 45 min |
| Aug 21, 8:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker | 47 min |
| Aug 21, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 10:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 26 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.