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River Flood Warning 79, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 12, 2018Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 12, 2018, 8:06 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 13, 2018, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2018, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2018, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 21, 2018, 2:21 PM CDT
In force: 8 days
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Trinity River at Dallas (DALT2). The gauge peaked at 38.20 ft at Oct 16, 2018, 6:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 29 ft
Minor stage: 30 ft
Moderate stage: 38 ft
Major stage: 40 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08057000, 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 12, 7:25 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 7:25 PM CDT, 41 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
Oct 13, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	4 days
Oct 13, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	5 days
Oct 13, 9:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	4 days
Oct 13, 9:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	21 min
Oct 13, 10:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	2 hr
Oct 13, 10:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche, Erath	40 min
Oct 13, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	45 min
Oct 13, 11:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	17 hr
Oct 13, 11:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	43 min
Oct 13, 11:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	3 hr
Oct 13, 11:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	50 min
Oct 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall, Tarrant	3 hr
Oct 13, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	29 min
Oct 13, 12:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	3 hr
Oct 13, 12:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis	46 min
Oct 13, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	43 min
Oct 13, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Navarro	38 min
Oct 13, 1:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	52 min
Oct 13, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	41 min
Oct 13, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	40 min
Oct 13, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	28 min
Oct 13, 1:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Oct 13, 1:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	52 min
Oct 13, 2:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	48 min
Oct 13, 2:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone, McLennan	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	6 days
Oct 13, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	50 min
Oct 13, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	51 min
Oct 13, 3:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	29 hr
Oct 13, 3:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	22 hr
Oct 13, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone	41 min
Oct 13, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson	13 min
Oct 13, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Oct 13, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Freestone, Leon	52 min
Oct 13, 4:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	3 hr
Oct 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls	3 hr
Oct 13, 6:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Leon, Milam, Robertson	3 hr
Oct 13, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Leon, Milam, Robertson	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.