Thunderstorm Wind, Robertson
- When
- October 5, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Robertson County, Hearne
- Measured
- 59 kt (68 mph) measured sustained
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 30.883, -96.600
Damaging Wind in Texas, October 5, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Oct 5, 2:07 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 2:07 PM CST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 307 PM CDT SUN OCT 5 2003 .DISCUSSION... WEAK COLD FRONT IN AREA WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION INTO MONDAY...BUT BEST CHANCES WILL BE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY... ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTH. ONCE AGAIN ETA SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST HANDLE ON THE SITUATION...WITH MOS NUMBERS A CROSS BETWEEN NGM AND AVN. HOWEVER...MODELS DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON MOISTURE... WITH MID 60S OR HIGHER DEWPOINTS SETTLED WELL NORTH INTO THE AREA. EAST WINDS WILL BRING IN SOME DRIER AIR...BUT OVERALL...EXPECT SLIGHTLY HIGHER DEWPOINTS...ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION. CURRENT ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AS THE UPPER WAVE EXITS THE REGION. NEXT WAVE ALREADY BEGINNING TO FIRE CONVECTION IN WEST TEXAS...AND IT SHOULD AFFECT NORTH TEXAS LATER TONIGHT...PRIMARILY AFTER MIDNIGHT. ALL THE ACTIVITY SHOULD EXIT THE REGION DURING THE DAY MONDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN COOLER THAN MOS...BUT WILL GRADUALLY WARM TO MORE SEASONAL READINGS BY MID WEEK. MODELS HAVE BEEN SOMEWHAT INCONCLUSIVE AS TO END OF WEEK SOLUTION. UNTIL THERE SEEMS TO BE A BETTER CONSENSUS...WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE CURRENT FORECAST FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND. && DFW 66 80 64 83 / 30 20 0 0 ACT 68 84 64 86 / 50 30 0 0 PRX 63 78 64 80 / 20 20 0 0 DTO 65 80 65 82 / 20 20 0 0 TKI 64 80 65 82 / 20 20 0 0 DAL 66 80 65 83 / 30 20 0 0 TRL 66 80 65 84 / 30 20 0 0 CRS 67 82 64 85 / 30 30 0 0 TPL 69 84 66 86 / 50 30 0 0 && .FWD... TX...NONE. && 42
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 5, 2:00 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...AFTERNOON UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 300 PM CDT SUN OCT 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO ATHENS. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. ANOTHER CHANCE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY ANOTHER DISTURBANCE OVERNIGHT. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED...BUT SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AREAWIDE ONCE AGAIN MONDAY...AS A FRONT REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...MOST LIKELY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO ATHENS. 58/25
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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Sources
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: 5372154.