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River Flood Warning 96, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Oct 15, 2018, 3:50 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 15, 2018, 11:35 PM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2018, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2018, 11:35 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2018, 2:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Walnut Creek near Mansfield (MNFT2). The gauge peaked at 21.75 ft at Oct 15, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT.
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 19 ft
- Moderate stage
- 22 ft
- Major stage
- 25 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08049700, 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, 1:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 1:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 31 min |
| Oct 14, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 33 min |
| Oct 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 64 min |
| Oct 14, 8:31 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 39 days |
| Oct 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 29 min |
| Oct 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 29 min |
| Oct 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Oct 14, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 23 min |
| Oct 14, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 31 min |
| Oct 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Oct 15, 4:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 43 hr |
| Oct 15, 8:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 36 hr |
| Oct 15, 9:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath, Johnson, Somervell | 18 hr |
| Oct 15, 10:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 43 hr |
| Oct 15, 10:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 6 hr |
| Oct 15, 12:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 32 hr |
| Oct 15, 1:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 6 hr |
| Oct 15, 1:56 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 41 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Mills | 6 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, McLennan | 39 hr |
| Oct 15, 4:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 15 hr |
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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.