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River Flood Warning 192, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 25, 2016Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Sep 25, 2016, 1:44 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 25, 2016, 2:52 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 25, 2016, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 25, 2016, 2:52 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 26, 2016, 3:09 AM CDT
In force: 12 hr
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 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Rowlette Creek near Sachse (SHCT2).

Action stage: 23 ft
Minor stage: 24 ft
Moderate stage: 27 ft
Major stage: 29 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08061540, 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 Sep 25, 12:47 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 25, 12:47 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 25, 4:15 AM CDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
415 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261100-
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-
415 AM CDT SUN SEP 25 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THROUGH TONIGHT
ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES EXPECTED ALONG
AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 AND 35 WEST CORRIDORS. THE MAIN
RISKS FROM ANY STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH. THE HIGHEST RISK FOR FLOODING
WILL BE ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS...WHERE LIFT WILL
BE THE STRONGEST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS
THE ENTIRE AREA ON MONDAY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. PRIMARY HAZARDS
ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHTNING STRIKES AND FLOODING...ESPECIALLY
ACROSS THOSE AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 281 WHERE SMALL
STREAM FLOODING AND FLOODING OF TYPICAL LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE
EXPECTED IN SOME LOCALES. WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IS NOT
EXPECTED. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED
HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED WEST OF I-35/I-35W...WITH LESSER
AMOUNTS FURTHER EAST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER REPORTS
OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING ARE APPRECIATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 25, 8:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 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
Sep 24, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	35 min
Sep 24, 8:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	25 min
Sep 25, 8:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	114 min
Sep 25, 9:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Coryell	111 min
Sep 25, 10:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	59 min
Sep 25, 12:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls, Freestone, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	114 min
Sep 25, 12:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin	3 hr
Sep 25, 1:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	2 hr
Sep 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	2 hr
Sep 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman, Rockwall	118 min
Sep 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	2 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016 Every river flood warning in 2016

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.