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River Flood Warning 293, NWS Fort Worth, TX

December 13, 2015Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2015, 8:34 AM CST for Collin County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2015, 2:48 PM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2015, 8:34 AM CST (14:34 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 13, 2015, 2:48 PM CST
Expired: Dec 14, 2015, 6:36 AM CST
In force: 16 hr
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 14:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Dec 13, 5:50 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 5:50 AM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 3:25 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-140930-
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-
325 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING...MAINLY
EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE
FLASH FLOODING THROUGH THE MORNING EAST OF INTERSTATE 35.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH 9 AM EAST OF
INTERSTATE 35.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 2:59 AM CST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
259 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ104-119>121-134-135-146-131000-
ROCKWALL TX-DALLAS TX-NAVARRO TX-KAUFMAN TX-ELLIS TX-COLLIN TX-
HENDERSON TX-
259 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN ELLIS...COLLIN...EASTERN
DALLAS...NAVARRO...ROCKWALL...WESTERN HENDERSON AND KAUFMAN COUNTIES
UNTIL 400 AM CST...

AT 258 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR UNIVERSITY PARK TO
WILMER TO NEAR BARDWELL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DALLAS...PLANO...GARLAND...MESQUITE...MCKINNEY...CARROLLTON...
RICHARDSON...ALLEN...ROWLETT...WYLIE...ROCKWALL...LANCASTER...FARMERS
BRANCH...CORSICANA...BALCH SPRINGS...UNIVERSITY PARK...SACHSE...
ENNIS...TERRELL AND SEAGOVILLE.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...
 INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 471 AND 511.
 INTERSTATE 30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 47 AND 79.
 INTERSTATE 45 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 219 AND 284.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3334 9638 3335 9629 3285 9630 3284 9629
      3284 9609 3201 9607 3185 9673 3255 9673
      3298 9685 3340 9648 3340 9639
TIME...MOT...LOC 0858Z 217DEG 32KT 3289 9677 3261 9669 3225 9672

CAVANAUGH

Local storm report, Dec 13, 3:54 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
354 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0335 AM     TSTM WND GST     ROCKWALL                32.93N  96.45W
12/13/2015  M62 MPH          ROCKWALL           TX   ASOS

            62 MPH WIND GUST RPORTED BY THE ASOS IN ROCKWALL

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:01 AM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
401 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ121>123-131100-
RAINS TX-KAUFMAN TX-VAN ZANDT TX-
401 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR VAN ZANDT...RAINS AND EASTERN
KAUFMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM CST...

AT 358 AM CST...MEASURED WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OCCURRED ALONG A LINE
OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR QUINLAN TO NEAR
MABANK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TERRELL...CANTON...WILLS POINT...GRAND SALINE...MABANK...VAN...
EDGEWOOD...EMORY...KEMP...EAST TAWAKONI...FRUITVALE...EDOM...LAKE
TAWAKONI STATE PARK...PURTIS CREEK STATE PARK...POINT AND OAK RIDGE.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 502 AND 542.

LAT...LON 3236 9546 3236 9625 3284 9626 3284 9594
      3287 9599 3297 9595 3298 9591 3298 9567
      3272 9564 3268 9559 3248 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 0958Z 234DEG 33KT 3283 9617 3242 9611

CAVANAUGH

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:10 AM CST, 4 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
410 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ121>123-131100-
RAINS TX-KAUFMAN TX-VAN ZANDT TX-
410 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR VAN ZANDT...RAINS AND EASTERN
KAUFMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM CST...

AT 359 AM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR QUINLAN TO NEAR MABANK...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TERRELL...CANTON...WILLS POINT...GRAND SALINE...MABANK...VAN...
EDGEWOOD...EMORY...KEMP...EAST TAWAKONI...FRUITVALE...EDOM...LAKE
TAWAKONI STATE PARK...PURTIS CREEK STATE PARK...POINT AND OAK RIDGE.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 502 AND 542.

LAT...LON 3236 9546 3236 9625 3284 9626 3284 9594
      3287 9599 3297 9595 3298 9591 3298 9567
      3272 9564 3268 9559 3248 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 0959Z 234DEG 33KT 3283 9617 3242 9611

CAVANAUGH

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:37 AM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
437 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ094-095-105>107-123-131130-
LAMAR TX-HUNT TX-HOPKINS TX-RAINS TX-DELTA TX-FANNIN TX-
437 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HOPKINS...EASTERN FANNIN...
EASTERN HUNT...DELTA...LAMAR AND NORTHERN RAINS COUNTIES UNTIL 530 AM
CST...

AT 436 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
BENNINGTON TO NEAR EAST TAWAKONI...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PARIS...SULPHUR SPRINGS...COMMERCE...COOPER...HONEY GROVE...
BLOSSOM...EMORY...EAST TAWAKONI...CUMBY...COMO...CAMPBELL...DEPORT...
COOPER LAKE PARK SOUTH SULPHUR...COOPER LAKE PARK DOCTORS CREEK...
POINT...ROXTON...LADONIA...LONE OAK...TIRA AND PECAN GAP.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 102 AND 142.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3393 9556 3388 9554 3389 9551 3388 9551
      3387 9540 3389 9532 3296 9531 3296 9566
      3285 9565 3287 9598 3386 9599 3387 9599
      3389 9593 3384 9584 3386 9581 3384 9577
      3389 9575 3388 9570 3394 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1036Z 272DEG 19KT 3385 9594 3296 9587

CAVANAUGH

Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:53 AM CST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
453 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

TXZ135-147-148-162-131145-
ANDERSON TX-LEON TX-FREESTONE TX-HENDERSON TX-
453 AM CST SUN DEC 13 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ANDERSON...HENDERSON...EASTERN
FREESTONE AND NORTHEASTERN LEON COUNTIES UNTIL 545 AM CST...

AT 452 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR EUSTACE TO NEAR
CENTERVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PALESTINE...ATHENS...CHANDLER...MALAKOFF...ELKHART...FRANKSTON...
BROWNSBORO...EUSTACE...BERRYVILLE...EDOM...COFFEE CITY...MURCHISON...
OAKWOOD...POYNOR AND MOORE STATION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3151 9574 3147 9572 3146 9575 3146 9571
      3136 9566 3130 9567 3127 9573 3119 9575
      3116 9596 3236 9600 3236 9545 3223 9549
      3218 9546 3215 9548 3208 9542 3185 9545
      3182 9540 3176 9540 3168 9528 3161 9526
TIME...MOT...LOC 1052Z 254DEG 40KT 3232 9593 3125 9590

CAVANAUGH

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	44 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, 8:36 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

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.