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River Flood Warning 101, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 22, 2015Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 22, 2015, 8:57 PM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2015, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2015, 9:34 AM CDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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 East Fork Trinity River at McKinney (MCKT2).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08059000, 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 May 22, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 7:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 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
May 23, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	41 min
May 23, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	44 min
May 23, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	42 min
May 23, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	37 min
May 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan	45 min
May 23, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	51 min
May 23, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	41 min
May 23, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	56 min
May 23, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	45 min
May 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Lampasas, Mills and 1 more	3 hr
May 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	54 min
May 23, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	48 min
May 23, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	41 min
May 23, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	41 min
May 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	45 min
May 23, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	49 min
May 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	52 min
May 23, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	48 min
May 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton, Tarrant, Wise	47 min
May 23, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	39 min
May 23, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	50 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.