1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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, 4:50 AM CST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 AM CDT SAT AUG 10 2002 .AVIATION DISCUSSION... SCT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NEAR METROPLEX AIRPORTS EARLY THIS MORNING. WILL MENTION SOME CB AND VCTS THIS MORNING...AND THEN A BREAK BEFORE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES THIS AFTERNOON AND CONVECTION GETS GOING AGAIN. OTHERWISE...VFR NEXT 24 HRS WITH MAINLY SCT-BKN040 AND SSE FLOW AROUND 6 KTS. .PUBLIC DISCUSSION... INFRARED SATELLITE LOOPS INDICATE THAT THE CLOUD TOPS FROM THE MCS OVER THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS HAVE BEEN WARMING AS THE STORMS PUSH SOUTHEAST. SINCE THE INFLOW IS NOT TERRIBLY STRONG FARTHER EAST...EXPECT MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY TO DISSIPATE BEFORE REACHING NORTH TEXAS. GIVEN THAT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE EAST CENTRAL ZONES...AND BOUNDARIES FROM THESE STORMS AND THE MCS TO OUR NORTHWEST...WILL PLACE 30 PERCENT POPS ACROSS ALL BUT THE SOUTHWEST FOR TODAY. WILL KEEP LOW POPS FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. MONDAY SHOULD BE DRY...BUT RAIN CHANCES RETURN FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A FRONT APPROACHES. AFTERWARD...DRY CONDITIONS SHOULD PREVAIL FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. FCSTID = 58 DFW 94 75 94 75 / 30 20 10 10 ACT 96 74 95 74 / 30 20 20 20 PRX 93 71 93 72 / 30 20 10 10 DTO 94 72 94 73 / 30 20 10 10 TKI 94 73 93 75 / 30 20 10 10 DAL 96 76 94 77 / 30 20 10 10 TRL 94 73 94 73 / 30 20 20 20 CRS 95 72 94 72 / 30 20 20 20 TPL 95 74 95 74 / 20 20 20 20 .FWD...NONE.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:19 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning started a fire in southwest Fort Worth that did $280,000 damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2002
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