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River Flood Warning 243, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 6, 2015Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Nov 6, 2015, 8:09 AM CST for Limestone County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 6, 2015, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 6, 2015, 8:09 AM CST (14:09 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 6, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Nov 7, 2015, 9:20 PM CST
In force: 27 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 14:12 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 6.28 ft at Nov 7, 2015, 12:00 AM CST.

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 Nov 6, 6:29 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 6:29 AM CST, 1 hour 40 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
Nov 5, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton, Grayson	38 min
Nov 5, 6:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	3 hr
Nov 5, 7:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	40 min
Nov 5, 7:32 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	3 hr
Nov 5, 7:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	44 min
Nov 5, 8:25 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	3 hr
Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	39 min
Nov 5, 10:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Nov 5, 11:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Nov 6, 12:19 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Nov 6, 12:27 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Nov 6, 2:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	17 hr
Nov 6, 2:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Falls, Freestone, Henderson, Hill and 7 more	20 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.