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River Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 28, 2024Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this river flood warning at Apr 28, 2024, 5:31 AM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 28, 2024, 8:26 AM CDT. It was in force for 55 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2024, 5:31 AM CDT (10:31 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 28, 2024, 8:26 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 30, 2024, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 55 hr
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 10:30 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).

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 Apr 28, 2:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 2:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 28, 2:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 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
Apr 27, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	25 min
Apr 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	44 min
Apr 27, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	56 min
Apr 27, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Young	54 min
Apr 28, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	63 min
Apr 28, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens	50 min
Apr 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	3 hr
Apr 28, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague, Wise	40 min
Apr 28, 1:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	55 hr
Apr 28, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Wise	42 min
Apr 28, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	42 min
Apr 28, 2:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Tarrant	39 min
Apr 28, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Denton	33 min
Apr 28, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	40 min
Apr 28, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	47 min
Apr 28, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	39 min
Apr 28, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	43 min
Apr 28, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton, Somervell	24 min
Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Montague	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 28, 4:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, Rockwall	4 hr
Apr 28, 4:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	3 hr
Apr 28, 5:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson	4 hr
Apr 28, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	16 hr
Apr 28, 5:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	2 hr
Apr 28, 6:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Lampasas, McLennan	3 hr
Apr 28, 6:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	15 hr
Apr 28, 6:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	39 min
Apr 28, 7:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	3 hr
Apr 28, 7:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman	3 hr
Apr 28, 8:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	3 days
Apr 28, 8:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	34 hr
Apr 28, 9:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	2 hr
Apr 28, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	26 min
Apr 28, 9:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls	27 min
Apr 28, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	18 hr
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	21 days
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	23 hr
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	32 hr
Apr 28, 10:40 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hill, McLennan	39 min
Apr 28, 1:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	46 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	58 min
Apr 28, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	53 min
Apr 28, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	49 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam, Robertson	47 min
Apr 28, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	3 hr
Apr 28, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Robertson	45 min
Apr 28, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	28 min
Apr 28, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone	38 min
Apr 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	60 min
Apr 28, 4:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	66 min
Apr 28, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson	35 min
Apr 28, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	50 min
Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	51 min
Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	35 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.