An upper level low pressure system and associated Pacific front moved through North Texas in the early morning hours.
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An upper level low pressure system and associated Pacific front moved through North Texas in the early morning hours.
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 Dec 20, 3:30 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 AM CST WED DEC 20 2006 .DISCUSSION... AZ/NM UPPER LOW NOW IN PROGRESSIVE STAGE WITH UPSTREAM SYSTEM KICKER MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NW...WHILE SUB-TROPICAL 90-110 KT UPPER JET SURGES UP S/ERN PERIPHERY OF SYSTEM. RADAR INDICATING BANDING IN LARGE-SCALE ASCENT JUST W OF CWA ATTM...IN VICINITY OF PACIFIC FRONT NOW MOVING TO A WICHITA FALLS...ABILENE...DEL RIO LINE...SO ITS ON THE MOVE NOW. NEW SFC LOW HAS DEVELOPED NEAR WICHITA FALLS AND WILL BECOME DOMINANT AS THE DAY WEARS ON...HELPING TO PULL PACIFIC FRONT ACROSS N TX THRU 00Z THURS (THIS EVENING). BEST RAIN CHANCES TO OCCUR OVER NERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION TODAY. ISOLATED...EMBEDDED THUNDER POSSIBLE. FURTHER SOUTH...JUST A THIN BAND/BROKEN LINE TO RAPIDLY MOVE ACROSS...WITH HIGH POPS WELL E OF I-35 IN THE AFTN HOURS. THIS WONT BE A GULLY- WASHER SYSTEM DUE TO BEST QG FORCING/LARGE SCALE ASCENT...AND NOSE OF WAA OCCURRING WELL TO OUR N ACROSS OK/KS/AR...BUT SHOULD HOPEFULLY GIVE NRN COUNTIES UPWARDS TO BETWEEN 1/2 AND 1 INCH OF RAIN POSSIBLY. LESSER AND MORE SPORADIC AMOUNTS OVER THE SOUTH. POPS MAY BE ADJUSTED AT FCST ISSUANCE TIME. LATE THIS WEEK INTO SATURDAY TO BE DOMINATED BY POLAR HIGH PRESSURE AND DRY/SEASONABLE WX AS FLAT...SHORTWAVE UPPER RIDGE SITUATES OVERHEAD. NEXT KICKER SYSTEM DIGS OVER SW STATES/NRN MEXICO ON SATURDAY. MED RANGE MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT TO THIS POINT WITH UPPER LOW JUST S/SW OF THE W TX BIG BEND COUNTY BY 00Z SUNDAY. HEADING INTO THE HOLIDAY...MED RANGE MODELS DIVERGE ON SOLUTIONS... BUT GENERALLY KEEP BULK OF LARGE SCALE LIFT AND MOISTURE OVER S TX...WELL S OF I-20. HAVE TONED DOWN POPS TO SLIGHT CHANCE NORTH... LOW CHANCE SOUTH HEADING INTO CHRISTMAS EVE. CURRENT LOW LVL THICKNESS NOMOGRAMS DO INDICATE A POTENTIAL LOW CHANCE OF A RAIN/SNOW MIX NW OF D/FW LATER SAT NIGHT/SUN MORNING...THEN OVER NE COUNTIES CHRISTMAS EVE NIGHT/CHRISTMAS MORNING. HAVE MENTIONED THIS IN FCST WITH VERY LOW POP AND CONFIDENCE. WE DO NOT EXPECT ANYTHING NEAR THE MAGNITUDE OF POST-THANKSGIVING SYSTEM GIVEN THE MORE SRN TRACK OF THE UPPER LOW OVER S TX/GULF COAST REGION LATER NEXT WEEKEND. WELL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND UPDATE FORECASTS CONFIDENCE GROWS. STAY TUNED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 67 40 61 38 58 / 90 10 0 0 0 WACO, TX 69 41 63 37 60 / 80 10 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 58 43 61 35 55 / 100 30 0 0 0 DENTON, TX 62 38 58 34 58 / 100 10 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 62 41 59 36 57 / 100 10 0 0 0 DALLAS, TX 67 41 61 40 58 / 90 10 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 67 43 61 38 57 / 90 20 0 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 68 44 63 38 60 / 80 20 0 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 70 41 63 37 61 / 60 10 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 528 AM CST WED DEC 20 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-211200- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL- NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS- LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 528 AM CST WED DEC 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECT THIS MORNING OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS...THEN OVER FAR EASTERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON...AS A COLD FRONT AND STORM SYSTEM MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE REGION LATER IN THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THERE IS A LOW CHANCE OF RAIN MIXING WITH SNOW NORTHWEST OF A GAINESVILLE ...WEATHERFORD...COMANCHE LINE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...THEN AGAIN EAST OF A SHERMAN...MCKINNEY...TERRELL LINE CHRISTMAS EVE AND EARLY CHRISTMAS MORNING. AT THIS TIME...MUCH UNCERTAINTY EXISTS WITH STORM TRACK AND TIMING THIS COMING HOLIDAY. HOLIDAY TRAVELERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR FUTURE FORECASTS IN THE COMING DAYS AS FORECASTS BECOME MORE CERTAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEED THROUGH TONIGHT. 05/
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:57 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few signs were blown down along Highways 114 and 151 near the leading edge of a shallow line of thunderstorms.
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