1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 May 6, 2:48 AM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 348 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 WESTERLIES CONTINUE TO KEEP ACTIVE WEATHER CLOSE TO NORTH TEXAS... WITH AN INCREASE IN THE CHANCE FOR RAIN BY MID WEEK. IN THE SHORT TERM...RIDGE OVER THE GULF...WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...WILL KEEP RAIN CHANCES SLIM FOR ALL BUT THE NORTHWEST SECTOR. DRY LINE WILL BE ACTIVE TODAY AND TUESDAY...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME CONVECTION MAKING IT TO THE NORTHWEST PORTIONS. THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS WILL CONTINUE WITH WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS THROUGH TUESDAY. IT WILL ALSO BE WINDY OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS...PROBABLY INTO WEDNESDAY...AS SURFACE LOW KEEPS PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHT UNTIL FRONT APPROACHES LATE WEDNESDAY/EARLY THURSDAY. WIND SPEEDS WILL DROP BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AT NIGHT...THEN INCREASE AGAIN DURING THE DAY. HENCE...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY...WITH ANOTHER ISSUANCE LIKELY TUESDAY...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY. BY LATE WEDNESDAY/EARLY THURSDAY...RAIN CHANCES WILL INCREASE OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS AS FRONT GETS CLOSE TO AREA. FRONT SHOULD SLIP SOUTH INTO AREA THURSDAY...BRINGING SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS...ALONG WITH A CHANCE FOR MORE RAIN THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK. DFW 89 72 89 72 / 0 10 0 10 ACT 91 73 90 72 / 0 10 0 10 .FWD... TX...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH 700 PM TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. 42
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-062200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1255 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THERE IS SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A GAINESVILLE... TO MINERAL WELLS TO EASTLAND LINE MAINLY THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. A FEW STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ACROSS WEST TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO MOVE INTO FAR NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS BEFORE DISSIPATING THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL RESULT IN STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH. GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF A GAINESVILLE...TO TEMPLE LINE. OUTLOOK...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY ACROSS MAINLY NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AS STORMS FORM ALONG THE DRYLINE TO THE WEST AND MOVE EAST. ON WEDNESDAY...THE CHANCE OF STORMS WILL EXIST OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. THE STORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. 07
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:59 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning strikes started three house fires and heavily damaged one.
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, May 2002
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: 5296373.