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River Flood Warning 308, NWS Fort Worth, TX

December 25, 2015Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Dec 25, 2015, 8:53 AM CST for Hunt County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 26, 2015, 3:30 PM CST. It was in force for 67 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2015, 8:53 AM CST (14:53 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 26, 2015, 3:30 PM CST
Expired: Dec 29, 2015, 10:13 AM CST
In force: 67 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Cowleech Fork Sabine River at Greenville (GNVT2). The gauge peaked at 17.49 ft at Dec 28, 2015, 5:00 AM 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 25, 6:05 AM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 6:05 AM CST, 2 hours 48 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 25, 8:03 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	4 days
Dec 25, 8:03 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	7 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	4 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	4 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	7 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	6 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Jack	4 days
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	60 hr
Dec 25, 8:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	4 days
Dec 25, 8:53 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	4 days
Dec 25, 1:56 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	7 days
Dec 25, 2:40 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	5 days

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.