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River Flood Warning 74, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 2015Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at May 12, 2015, 9:28 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at May 14, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 2015, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2015, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 21, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Elm Fork Trinity River near Carrollton (CART2). The gauge peaked at 9.01 ft at May 17, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08055500, 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 May 12, 9:06 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 9:06 PM CDT, 22 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
May 13, 11:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Mills	4 hr
May 13, 12:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath	4 hr
May 13, 1:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood	4 hr
May 13, 2:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill, Johnson	4 hr
May 13, 2:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Parker, Wise	3 hr
May 13, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	48 min
May 13, 3:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	2 hr
May 13, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	119 min
May 13, 3:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	112 min
May 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	117 min
May 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	6 hr
May 13, 6:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	45 hr
May 13, 6:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Fannin	3 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.