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River Flood Warning 121, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 3, 2020Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Sep 3, 2020, 2:43 PM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It took effect at Sep 3, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2020, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 3, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 5, 2020, 8:39 AM CDT
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Limestone County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Navasota River above Groesbeck (GRST2). The gauge peaked at 8.73 ft at Sep 4, 2020, 9:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08110325, 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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 3:18 PM CDT, 23 hours 25 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
Sep 3, 3:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls, Limestone	3 hr
Sep 3, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	32 min
Sep 3, 4:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Sep 3, 5:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson	3 hr
Sep 3, 5:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton	3 hr
Sep 3, 6:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	2 hr
Sep 3, 6:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	41 min
Sep 3, 6:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Leon	3 hr
Sep 3, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Lampasas	5 hr
Sep 3, 7:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone	2 hr
Sep 3, 8:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls, Freestone, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	3 hr
Sep 3, 8:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mills	115 min
Sep 3, 12:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Lampasas	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2020 Every river flood warning in 2020

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.