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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 20, 201838 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 20, 2018, 4:02 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 21, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 45 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 20, 2018, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 21, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 23, 2018, 3:57 AM CDT
In force: 45 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Flood severity: None

All 38 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Sep 20, 4:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 4:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 20, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 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 19, 10:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	46 min
Sep 20, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	23 min
Sep 20, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, Milam	44 min
Sep 20, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
Sep 20, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	34 min
Sep 20, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
Sep 20, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls, McLennan	46 min

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.