Air carrier flight crew received an egpws 'terrain; terrain' and 'too low terrain' warning while fly...

Narrative:

We were cleared the visual approach to 31L at dallas love field while flying a right downwind to runway 31L. As I turned from downwind to base I pointed the nose of the aircraft toward downtown dallas as our closure rate became closer to the buildings and I started my turn from base to final we received a GPWS caution 'terrain' 'too low terrain' at approximately 1;600 feet MSL. I stopped my descent rate and continued the turn to final in order to correct the flight path. The terrain caution stopped and we continued the approach to an uneventful landing. ATC never advised us of an altitude alert or warning. The correct action would have been to go-around on the approach since our procedure is to correct the flight path; which we did and we were able to silence the terrain caution. It also says that; if on approach; initiate a go-around for any of the following: night; IMC; unable to acquire terrain visually.we were flying a night visual approach and had the terrain in sight and correcting the flight path; but since it was night conditions we should have initiated a go-around.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew received an EGPWS 'Terrain; Terrain' and 'Too Low Terrain' warning while flying a visual approach to DAL Runway 31L at night. The warning is silenced and the crew continued for a safe landing.

Narrative: We were cleared the visual approach to 31L at Dallas Love Field while flying a right downwind to Runway 31L. As I turned from downwind to base I pointed the nose of the aircraft toward downtown Dallas as our closure rate became closer to the buildings and I started my turn from base to final we received a GPWS caution 'Terrain' 'Too Low Terrain' at approximately 1;600 feet MSL. I stopped my descent rate and continued the turn to final in order to correct the flight path. The terrain caution stopped and we continued the approach to an uneventful landing. ATC never advised us of an altitude alert or warning. The correct action would have been to go-around on the approach since our procedure is to correct the flight path; which we did and we were able to silence the terrain caution. It also says that; if on approach; initiate a go-around for any of the following: night; IMC; unable to acquire terrain visually.We were flying a night visual approach and had the terrain in sight and correcting the flight path; but since it was night conditions we should have initiated a go-around.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1328672
Time
Date	201601
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DAL.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 226
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT

Air carrier flight crew received an egpws 'terrain; terrain' and 'too low terrain' warning while flying a visual approach to dal runway 31L at night. The warning is silenced and the crew continued for a safe landing.