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River Flood Warning 108, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 17, 2018Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 17, 2018, 7:54 PM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 17, 2018, 11:41 PM CDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 17, 2018, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2018, 11:41 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2018, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
28 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Comanche County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Sabana River near DeLeon (DSBT2). The gauge peaked at 19.09 ft at Oct 18, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT.

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Action stage
17 ft
Minor stage
19 ft
Moderate stage
22 ft
Major stage
24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08099300, 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 Oct 17, 7:01 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 7:01 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 7:54 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDComanche32 hr
Oct 17, 8:35 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDKaufman18 hr
Oct 18, 4:13 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto21 hr
Oct 18, 3:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchFWDBell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Eastland and 18 more30 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2018Every river flood warning in 2018

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.