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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Oct 12, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2018, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2018, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 13, 2018, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2018, 3:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 29 counties
Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke 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, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 Oct 12, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:11 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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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.