August 6th-18th Episode NarrativeThunderstorms developed in the afternoon heat across north Texas. Due to the high temperatures, downburst winds were the main problem and they caused damage in some locations.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
August 6th-18th Episode NarrativeThunderstorms developed in the afternoon heat across north Texas. Due to the high temperatures, downburst winds were the main problem and they caused damage in some locations. Lightning was another problem with several strikes hitting people and property.During the second half of the month, north Texas experienced very "unsummer-like" weather, as a series of low pressure systems parked over the region. Rain, thunderstorms, and cooler than normal conditions resulted. Wind and hail damage was reported across portions of north Texas.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 10, 11:03 AM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1203 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 AVIATION DISCUSSION... AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AND MUCH OF OKLAHOMA TODAY. COLD FRONT OVER OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH AND MAY BE ALONG THE RED RIVER SATURDAY 15Z WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON CONVECTION. SOUTHWEST SURFACE WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND MOST OF SATURDAY. 75 ======================================================= 1115 AM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 THE DYESS AFB RADAR SHOWS A WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM NORTHWEST OF ABILENE INTO THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. THIS WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP THE BEST POPS ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER AND THE RED RIVER COUNTIES FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. TEMPERATURES ARE POISED TO CLIMB ABOVE 100 DEGREES ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN 2/3S OF THE FORECAST AREA AGAIN TODAY. THE BIG WEATHER QUESTION REMAINS WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THE COLD FRONT? 58 .FWD...HEAT ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON DFW TO WACO COUNTIES.
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-102100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1250 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001 ...HEAT... A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...COLLIN... DALLAS...DENTON...ELLIS...HILL...JOHNSON... MCLENNAN...AND TARRANT. THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. DRINK PLENTY OF NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES...WEAR LIGHT COLORED AND LIGHT WEIGHT CLOTHES...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS...AND STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED AREAS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. DO NOT LEAVE CHILDREN OR PETS IN A CLOSED VEHICLE...EVEN FOR A FEW MINUTES. TEMPERATURES INSIDE A CLOSED VEHICLE CAN REACH 140 TO 190 DEGREES WITHIN 30 MINUTES ON A HOT SUNNY DAY. ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR AREAS WEST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS...TO MERIDIAN..TO CANTON. WHILE THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE... CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL PRESENT A HAZARD.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.
2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A man was struck by lightning at the Cross Timbers golf course and was in serious condition with burns on his head and shoulders.
A downburst from a severe thunderstorm blew two airplane hangars off their foundations,destroyed an recreational vehicle storage building, did minor damage to three aircraft, and minor wind damage to other structures.
Lightning started a fire in Flower Mound.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5265254, 5265252, 5265253.