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River Flood Warning 290, NWS Fort Worth, TX

December 12, 2015Delta County, Hopkins County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 12, 2015, 7:40 AM CST for Delta County, Hopkins County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2015, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 12, 2015, 7:40 AM CST (13:40 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 13, 2015, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 17, 2015, 8:51 AM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Delta County, TX, Hopkins County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point South Sulphur River near Cooper (COPT2). The gauge peaked at 19.29 ft at Dec 13, 2015, 10:00 AM CST.

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07342500, 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 Dec 12, 5:54 AM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 5:54 AM CST, 1 hour 46 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
Dec 12, 2:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Delta, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Henderson and 12 more	22 hr
Dec 12, 3:28 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Dec 12, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	28 min
Dec 12, 4:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	29 min
Dec 12, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins	36 min
Dec 12, 4:42 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hunt, Rains	2 hr
Dec 12, 5:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt	3 hr

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.