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River Flood Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 21, 2018Ellis County, Kaufman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Feb 21, 2018, 2:03 PM CST for Ellis County, Kaufman County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 22, 2018, 11:26 AM CST. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 21, 2018, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 22, 2018, 11:26 AM CST
Expired: Feb 26, 2018, 9:17 AM CST
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Ellis County, TX, Kaufman County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Trinity River near Rosser (RSRT2).

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 31 ft
Moderate stage: 36 ft
Major stage: 38 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08062500, 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 21, 12:24 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 12:24 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 21, 12:43 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1243 PM CST WED FEB 21 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1241 PM     ICE STORM        WEATHERFORD             32.77N  97.80W
02/21/2018                   PARKER             TX   PUBLIC

            POWER OUTAGES REPORTED ACROSS PARTS OF PARKER, WISE, AND
            TARRANT COUNTIES.

Local storm report, Feb 21, 12:45 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1245 PM CST WED FEB 21 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1123 AM     SLEET            2 SE JACKSBORO          33.20N  98.15W
02/21/2018  E0.50 INCH       JACK               TX   PUBLIC

            ONE-HALF INCH OF SLEET ACCUMULATION ON HIGHWAY 380 AT
            HIGHWAY 281.

Local storm report, Feb 21, 1:07 PM CST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
107 PM CST WED FEB 21 2018

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
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0106 PM     ICE STORM        STEPHENVILLE            32.23N  98.20W
02/21/2018                   ERATH              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE BRANCHES AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS NORTHERN
            PORTIONS OF ERATH COUNTY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 20, 6:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	30 min
Feb 20, 6:01 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hood, Parker, Somervell	4 hr
Feb 20, 6:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	15 hr
Feb 20, 6:36 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	24 hr
Feb 20, 6:59 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Fannin, Hunt, Rockwall	9 hr
Feb 20, 7:09 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	6 hr
Feb 20, 7:53 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	26 hr
Feb 20, 10:30 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill	3 hr
Feb 20, 10:33 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	5 days
Feb 20, 10:42 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	4 days
Feb 20, 10:42 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	17 days
Feb 20, 11:09 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	16 hr
Feb 21, 12:15 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Feb 21, 1:42 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas	3 hr
Feb 21, 2:29 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas	3 hr
Feb 21, 2:56 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	40 days
Feb 21, 3:59 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	23 hr
Feb 21, 4:49 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	116 min
Feb 21, 6:54 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	111 min
Feb 21, 7:50 AM CST	Ice Storm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens and 2 more	8 hr
Feb 21, 4:56 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	3 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2018 Every 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.