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River Flood Warning 93, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 15, 2018Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 15, 2018, 12:39 PM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 15, 2018, 2:12 PM CDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2018, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 15, 2018, 2:12 PM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2018, 8:09 PM CDT
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Moderate

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sister Grove Creek near Blue Ridge (BVWT2). The gauge peaked at 26.18 ft at Oct 15, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT.

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Action stage
22 ft
Minor stage
24 ft
Moderate stage
27 ft
Major stage
31 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08059400, 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 15, 6:37 AM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 6:37 AM CDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 4:25 AM CDT, 8 hours 14 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 15, 9:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 7:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDSomervell31 min
Oct 14, 7:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque33 min
Oct 14, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill41 min
Oct 14, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis64 min
Oct 14, 8:31 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon39 days
Oct 14, 8:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill29 min
Oct 14, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt29 min
Oct 14, 8:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro31 min
Oct 14, 9:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro23 min
Oct 14, 9:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson31 min
Oct 15, 12:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton41 min
Oct 15, 4:44 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas43 hr
Oct 15, 8:45 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton36 hr
Oct 15, 9:03 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDBosque, Erath, Johnson, Somervell18 hr
Oct 15, 10:53 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins43 hr
Oct 15, 10:59 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDEllis, Navarro6 hr
Oct 15, 1:24 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDJohnson6 hr
Oct 15, 1:56 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDBosque41 hr
Oct 15, 3:31 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDComanche, Erath, Hamilton, Mills6 hr
Oct 15, 3:37 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDBosque, McLennan39 hr
Oct 15, 3:50 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDTarrant34 hr
Oct 15, 4:10 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas15 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.