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River Flood Warning 87, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 13, 2009, 10:05 AM CDT for Delta County, Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 5 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2009, 10:05 AM CDT (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2009, 9:31 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 days
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Delta County, TX, Hopkins County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point South Sulphur River near Cooper (COPT2). The gauge peaked at 18.39 ft at Oct 13, 2009, 8:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 14 ft
- Minor stage
- 16 ft
- Moderate stage
- 20 ft
- Major stage
- 25 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07342500, 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 13, 7:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 7:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 742 AM CDT TUE OCT 13 2009 .UPDATE... QUICK UPDATE DUE TO HEAVIER...EMBEDDED CONVECTION WILL LIKELY OCCUR ALONG AND SE OF A SHERMAN...WEATHERFORD...COMANCHE LINE...ESPECIALLY INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. SO HAVE ADDED HEAVY RAIN WORDING PER LOOK AT HPC QPF VALUES OF 1-2 INCHES...LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS WITH RICH PACIFIC MOISTURE FROM WEAKENING ERN PACIFIC HURRICANE COMBINING WITH INCREASING WAA/MOISTURE COMING FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. NO WATCHES EXPECTED...THOUGH LOCALIZED FLOODING CANT BE RULED OUT ACROSS THESE AREAS. UPDATE SENT. 05/ && .AVIATION... /12Z TAFS/ TODAY...LIFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. EXPECT PERIODS OF RAIN BEFORE NOON. BULK OF RAIN SHOULD PUSH OUT OF METRO SITES BY 17Z...WITH LINGERING 5SM VISIBILITY AND SKIES AROUND 800 FEET. FOR WACO...EXPECT CONTINUED RAIN THIS AFTERNOON...FINALLY MOVING OUT BY 00Z. TONIGHT...IFR WITH PERIODS OF LIFR. EXPECT FOG TO REDEVELOP AT METRO SITES BETWEEN 08Z-12Z...WITH 1SM VISIBILITY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 331 AM CDT TUE OCT 13 2009/ SLOPPY...WET...AND AT TIMES...FOGGY CONDITIONS THIS MORNING FOR COMMUTERS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING. SOME LOCALIZED AREAS HAVE FALLEN BELOW A MILE...BUT DENSE FOG IS NOT WIDESPREAD...AS REQUIRED FOR AN ADVISORY...THUS NO ADVISORY ISSUED. EXPECT AS RAIN/ THUNDER SPREADS ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING...EXPECT VISIBILITIES WILL VARY FROM 1/4 MILE TO 5 MILES. WELL MENTION AREAS OF FOG/WITH PATCHY DENSE FOG IN FORECASTS THIS MORNING AND MENTION IN HAZARDOUS WX OUTLOOK. RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDER SHOULD CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA TODAY...THEN BE ANCHORED OVER FAR E/SERN COUNTIES FOR THE LATE DAY/ EVENING HOURS...AS FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS ANCHORED JUST SOUTH OF I-20 FOR THE NEXT 18-24 HRS. WITH THIS BEING THE CASE...WILL MENTION MORE AREAS OF FOG ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT TONIGHT...THOUGH WE CANT RULE OUT A LITTLE PATCHY FOR SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY AS WINDS WILL BE RELATIVELY LIGHT. BOUNDARY WILL BEGIN SLOWLY LIFTING INTO SRN OK BY WED MORNING AND WILL CONTINUE HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES ACROSS NE COUNTIES IN VICINITY OF BOUNDARY. COLD FRONT WILL THEN MOVE INTO THE REGION WED NIGHT AND SE COUNTIES BY THURSDAY MORNING. WILL HAVE SOME THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ALONG THE BOUNDARY...MAINLY ACROSS THE ERN HALF OF NORTH TX. WITH SOME BRIEF 80S/TO NEAR 90 SOUTH OF I-20 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... SURFACE INSTABILITY MAY BE ENOUGH AHEAD OF THE FRONT FOR A FEW STRONG STORMS...BUT LAPSE RATES ALOFT ARE MOIST ADIABATIC AND DONT EXPECT MUCH OF A SEVERE THREAT AT THIS TIME...THOUGH CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED/MARGINALLY SEVERE STORM WED NIGHT/EARLY THURSDAY. FRONT CLEARS THE AREA BY THURS AFTERNOON WITH DRY CONTINENTAL AIR FILTERING INTO NORTH TX...BUT NOT OVERLY COLD. WINDS WILL BE BRISK THURSDAY INTO THURS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE OVER THE AREA FRIDAY/EARLY SATURDAY...FOR SOME PLEASANT FALL CONDITIONS. A REINFORCING FRONTAL SURGE LOOKS TO ARRIVE BY SAT NIGHT/EARLY SUNDAY AND REINFORCE THE DRY/COOL CONDITIONS. LOOKS LIKE A PERIOD OF DRYING OUT IS ON TAP FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 71 65 82 64 76 / 100 30 20 30 20 WACO, TX 76 69 87 70 80 / 100 40 10 10 20 PARIS, TX 66 60 75 63 74 / 100 70 30 60 40 DENTON, TX 70 63 81 60 75 / 100 30 20 40 20 MCKINNEY, TX 69 61 80 62 75 / 100 40 30 50 20 DALLAS, TX 71 66 82 64 77 / 100 40 20 40 20 TERRELL, TX 72 65 82 66 78 / 100 60 20 40 30 CORSICANA, TX 75 67 84 69 79 / 100 60 20 20 30 TEMPLE, TX 76 70 88 71 86 / 100 50 10 10 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21/05
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 9:11 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 911 AM CDT TUE OCT 13 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141200- 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- 911 AM CDT TUE OCT 13 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 PM TONIGHT FOR LOCATIONS EAST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO CORSICANA TO ATHENS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO ONE HALF MILE OR LESS THIS MORNING. AREAS OF FOG REDUCING VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE MILE WILL REDEVELOP TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:12 AM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
912 AM CDT TUE OCT 13 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0907 AM FLASH FLOOD 1 N KAUFMAN 32.59N 96.32W
10/13/2009 KAUFMAN TX EMERGENCY MNGR
8 INCHES OVER HWY 175 1 MI N OF KAUFMAN
42Local storm report, Oct 13, 9:42 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 8:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 2 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 28 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Navarro | 113 min |
| Oct 13, 9:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 115 min |
| Oct 13, 9:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 10:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 11:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 12:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 12:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 74 min |
| Oct 13, 2:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 15 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 63 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.