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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 16, 2010Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this river flood warning at Apr 16, 2010, 2:03 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 16, 2010, 2:11 PM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2010, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 16, 2010, 2:11 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 17, 2010, 8:13 AM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Childress County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River at Childress 10N (CHLT2). The gauge peaked at 9.13 ft at Apr 17, 2010, 5:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07299540, 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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 15, 6:24 PM CDT, 19 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 6:24 PM CDT, 19 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 8:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	53 min
Apr 15, 10:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, Lubbock, Lynn	2 hr
Apr 16, 7:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe, Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 16, 9:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LUB	Stonewall	25 hr
Apr 16, 10:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 12 more	6 hr
Apr 16, 4:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 11 more	3 hr
Apr 16, 5:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Hale, Hall and 3 more	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.