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River Flood Warning 71, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 9, 2009, 3:56 AM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 9, 2009, 4:52 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2009, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 9, 2009, 4:52 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2009, 10:33 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 08:57 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 87.35 ft at Oct 9, 2009, 7:00 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 Oct 9, 3:15 AM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 3:15 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 627 PM CDT THU OCT 8 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091145- 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- 627 PM CDT THU OCT 8 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE REGION. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY TONIGHT...WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. THEREFORE...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN LIKELY NEAR AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST OF NORTH TEXAS BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON...BRINGING THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO AN END. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 10:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 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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| Oct 8, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens, Young | 32 min |
| Oct 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 30 min |
| Oct 8, 11:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 35 min |
| Oct 8, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 33 min |
| Oct 9, 3:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton | 85 min |
| Oct 9, 3:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 113 min |
| Oct 9, 3:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 25 min |
| Oct 9, 4:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 16 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 33 min |
| Oct 9, 4:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 23 min |
| Oct 9, 4:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 6 hr |
| Oct 9, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 92 min |
| Oct 9, 4:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Navarro | 26 min |
| Oct 9, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 35 min |
| Oct 9, 5:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 59 min |
| Oct 9, 5:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill | 118 min |
| Oct 9, 5:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 34 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 64 min |
| Oct 9, 5:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 56 min |
| Oct 9, 6:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 51 hr |
| Oct 9, 6:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 33 hr |
| Oct 9, 8:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 35 hr |
| Oct 9, 8:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 25 hr |
| Oct 9, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 11 hr |
| Oct 9, 10:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan | 2 hr |
| Oct 9, 10:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 10:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 105 min |
| Oct 9, 10:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt | 2 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.