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River Flood Warning 53, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Sep 21, 2018, 2:28 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 22, 2018, 2:16 AM CDT. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2018, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 22, 2018, 2:16 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2018, 3:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point West Fork Trinity River at Grand Prairie (GPRT2).
- Action stage
- 25 ft
- Minor stage
- 27 ft
- Moderate stage
- 30 ft
- Major stage
- 33 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08049500, 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 Sep 21, 1:59 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 1:59 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 8:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 days |
| Sep 21, 8:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 3 days |
| Sep 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 63 hr |
| Sep 21, 8:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 3 days |
| Sep 21, 9:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 46 hr |
| Sep 21, 9:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Young | 5 days |
| Sep 21, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 42 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:28 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 72 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke | 117 min |
| Sep 21, 3:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Tarrant, Wise | 62 min |
| Sep 21, 4:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Wise | 66 min |
| Sep 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Wise | 114 min |
| Sep 21, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Grayson | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 6:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens | 118 min |
| Sep 21, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 42 min |
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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.