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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 30, 2013Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 30, 2013, 8:26 PM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 30, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 30, 2013, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 30, 2013, 11:45 PM CDT
Expired
Nov 1, 2013, 8:24 AM CDT
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Limestone County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Navasota River above Groesbeck (GRST2). The gauge peaked at 7.93 ft at Oct 31, 2013, 12:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
6 ft
Minor stage
7 ft
Moderate stage
10 ft
Major stage
14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08110325, 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 30, 6:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 6:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 30, 5:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
527 PM CDT WED OCT 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0515 PM     FLOOD            1 SW STREETMAN          31.86N  96.34W
10/30/2013                   FREESTONE          TX   PUBLIC

            WATER WAS RUSHING OVER FM-246 NEAR STREETMAN IN
            FREESTONE COUNTY NEAR THE NAVARRO COUNTY BORDER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 30, 8:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLeon3 hr
Oct 30, 8:33 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHenderson, Van Zandt3 hr
Oct 30, 9:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls3 hr
Oct 30, 10:06 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDFreestone, Limestone3 hr
Oct 30, 10:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMilam3 hr
Oct 30, 10:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone3 hr
Oct 30, 10:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson3 hr
Oct 31, 12:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls3 hr
Oct 31, 1:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMilam, Robertson5 hr
Oct 31, 1:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone4 hr
Oct 31, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson4 hr
Oct 31, 2:42 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDLeon, Robertson4 days
Oct 31, 3:12 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls3 hr
Oct 31, 5:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone4 hr
Oct 31, 5:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson4 hr
Oct 31, 6:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls3 hr
Oct 31, 6:16 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell, Milam, Robertson3 hr
Oct 31, 9:02 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Bell, Falls, Freestone, Leon, Limestone and 2 more6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2013Every river flood warning in 2013

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.