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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 17, 2014Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Jul 17, 2014, 2:31 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 18, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2014, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 18, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 21, 2014, 9:34 AM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point West Fork Trinity River near Boyd (BOYT2). The gauge peaked at 14.43 ft at Jul 18, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08044500, 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 Jul 17, 10:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 10:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 3:42 AM CDT, 10 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
342 AM CDT THU JUL 17 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-181000-
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-
342 AM CDT THU JUL 17 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO AFFECT NORTH AND CENTRAL
TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN
FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO POSE A
FLASH FLOOD THREAT IN SOME AREAS ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES
WILL CONTINUE IN THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY NIGHT
INTO SATURDAY.

AFTER A DRY PERIOD SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND
THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 10:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 7:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	26 min
Jul 16, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	38 min
Jul 16, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	27 min
Jul 17, 12:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke	119 min
Jul 17, 1:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	117 min
Jul 17, 2:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Montague, Wise	3 hr
Jul 17, 3:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	3 hr
Jul 17, 3:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	116 min
Jul 17, 4:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	35 min
Jul 17, 5:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	5 hr
Jul 17, 5:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	5 hr
Jul 17, 6:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	117 min
Jul 17, 6:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	18 hr
Jul 17, 8:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	31 hr
Jul 17, 9:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton	114 min
Jul 17, 9:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	114 min
Jul 17, 10:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Wise	117 min
Jul 17, 10:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	113 min
Jul 17, 12:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	2 hr
Jul 17, 12:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	48 hr
Jul 17, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	32 min
Jul 17, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	30 min
Jul 17, 4:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Leon	118 min

Nearby

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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.