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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 20, 2018Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Feb 20, 2018, 10:04 AM CST for Hunt County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 20, 2018, 5:18 PM CST. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2018, 10:04 AM CST (16:04 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 20, 2018, 5:18 PM CST
Expired: Feb 25, 2018, 6:54 PM CST
In force: 5 days
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 16:06 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).

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 Feb 19, 3:12 PM CST, 18 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 3:12 PM CST, 18 hours 52 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
Feb 20, 1:55 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	35 min
Feb 20, 2:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	36 min
Feb 20, 2:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	27 min
Feb 20, 3:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	29 min
Feb 20, 3:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	29 min
Feb 20, 4:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	33 min
Feb 20, 5:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	51 min
Feb 20, 5:22 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	23 min
Feb 20, 6:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	28 min
Feb 20, 6:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	49 min
Feb 20, 7:51 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	39 min
Feb 20, 8:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto	47 min
Feb 20, 8:32 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	28 min
Feb 20, 8:44 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker, Wise	31 min
Feb 20, 9:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	28 min
Feb 20, 9:25 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	35 min
Feb 20, 9:46 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	29 min
Feb 20, 10:04 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	5 days
Feb 20, 10:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton, Grayson	34 min
Feb 20, 11:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	35 min
Feb 20, 12:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	24 min
Feb 20, 1:18 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Wise	5 hr
Feb 20, 1:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	24 min
Feb 20, 2:42 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FWD	Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath and 13 more	46 hr
Feb 20, 2:51 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	24 min
Feb 20, 3:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	23 min
Feb 20, 3:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	32 min
Feb 20, 4:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	27 min
Feb 20, 4:25 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	35 min
Feb 20, 4:54 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	9 hr
Feb 20, 5:19 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	26 min
Feb 20, 5:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton	3 hr

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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.