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River Flood Warning 291, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 12, 2015, 7:05 PM CST for Hunt County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2015, 4:54 AM CST. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 2015, 7:05 PM CST (01:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 13, 2015, 4:54 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2015, 3:06 PM CST
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Hunt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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 Cowleech Fork Sabine River at Greenville (GNVT2). The gauge peaked at 16.67 ft at Dec 13, 2015, 7:00 PM CST.
- Action stage
- 13 ft
- Minor stage
- 14 ft
- Moderate stage
- 17 ft
- Major stage
- 19 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08017200, 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, 5:49 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 5:49 PM CST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 12, 3:40 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 340 PM CST SAT DEC 12 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131200- 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- 340 PM CST SAT DEC 12 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR A BRIEF TORNADO. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING THROUGH LATE EVENING. LATER TONIGHT...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT. PORTIONS OF THIS LINE OF STORMS COULD BE STRONG AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. A BRIEF TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL THREAT IS LOW. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME FLASH FLOODING DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE MORNING HOURS ON SUNDAY. THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THREAT FOR FLOODING AND STRONG WINDS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE MORNING HOURS. MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. DUNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 6:02 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Dec 12, 6:09 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 3 hr |
| Dec 12, 7:05 PM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 42 hr |
| Dec 12, 7:34 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Leon | 3 hr |
| Dec 12, 7:55 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Dec 12, 8:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Leon | 3 hr |
| Dec 12, 10:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 65 min |
| Dec 12, 10:44 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt | 2 hr |
| Dec 12, 11:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Jack, Palo Pinto, Young | 61 min |
| Dec 12, 11:42 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 48 min |
| Dec 12, 11:53 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Leon, Van Zandt | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:12 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath, Hood, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker and 2 more | 63 min |
| Dec 13, 12:30 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas | 60 min |
| Dec 13, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 53 min |
| Dec 13, 1:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 55 min |
| Dec 13, 1:09 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell, Hill, Johnson, McLennan | 66 min |
| Dec 13, 1:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 37 min |
| Dec 13, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 41 min |
| Dec 13, 1:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson and 3 more | 53 min |
| Dec 13, 1:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell, Falls, Hill, McLennan, Milam | 50 min |
| Dec 13, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 54 min |
| Dec 13, 2:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 65 min |
| Dec 13, 2:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall | 61 min |
| Dec 13, 3:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 64 min |
| Dec 13, 3:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Hunt, Rockwall | 62 min |
| Dec 13, 4:01 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 59 min |
| Dec 13, 4:10 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 50 min |
| Dec 13, 4:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 43 min |
| Dec 13, 4:37 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains | 53 min |
| Dec 13, 4:47 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:53 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 52 min |
| Dec 13, 5:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Leon | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:46 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 7:56 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Leon | 24 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:34 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 22 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 36 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 5 days |
| Dec 13, 9:11 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 109 min |
| Dec 13, 1:28 PM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 65 hr |
| Dec 13, 1:28 PM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 35 hr |
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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.