Texas, 2006

Damaging Wind in Texas, July 22, 2006

July 22, 2006 · NWS FWD · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
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  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$70,000
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 Jul 22, 10:42 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 10:42 AM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1142 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2006

.AVIATION...
SHOWERS CONTINUING ON SOUTH WITH WACO HAVING A CHANCE OF SEEING SOME
PRECIP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL STAY NORTHERLY THROUGH
PERIOD AND CONTINUE TO LIGHTEN UP AFTER SUNSET. SO DO NOT SEE ANY
MAJOR PROBLEMS FOR METROPLEX...AND MINOR RAIN PROBLEMS FOR WACO. 84

&&

.UPDATE...
1045 AM
COOLER AIR CONTINUES TO FILTER INTO NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS MORNING.
THE COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY NEAR A CANTON...WACO...TO GOLDTHWAITE
LINE AND IS STILL MOVING SOUTH BUT APPEARS TO BE SLOWING DOWN. THE
BEST RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE NEAR THE
FRONT OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN ZONES.  THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION
WILL SEE DECREASING CLOUDS AND SLOWLY WARMING TEMPERATURES AS WEAK
COOL AIR ADVECTION SLOWS DOWN DAYTIME HEATING.  TEMPERATURES NORTH
THE FRONT SHOULD STILL MAKE IT INTO THE LOWER 90S...BUT THE SLIGHTLY
DRIER AND BREEZIER CONDITIONS WILL MAKE IT FEEL MUCH MORE PLEASANT
THAN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS.

WILL MAKE A FEW MINOR CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS PACKAGE...MAINLY TO
BUMP POPS UP IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST AND ADJUST HOURLY
TEMPS/DEWPOINTS AND CLOUDS...79

&&

.AVIATION...
554 AM
A MID SUMMER COOL FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH THE KDFW TRACON AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH KACT TRACON SHORTLY BEFORE 12Z. SURFACE FLOW WILL
REMAIN NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 8 TO 17 KTS AT BOTH TAF SITES TODAY THEN 3
TO 7 KTS OVERNIGHT.

KACT TRACON HAS A 30% OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND 20% THIS
EVENING. HAVE ADDED SCT060CB TO COVER THIS LOW PROBABILITY.
OTHERWISE...MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUD DECK ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT
WILL SPREAD SOUTHWARD DURING THE DAY.  CIGS WILL REMAIN VFR AND
SHOULD GO SKC TONIGHT.  75

&&

.DISCUSSION...
313 AM.
THE EXCESSIVE HEAT IS GONE FOR NOW...BUT HOT TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT
GONE AWAY FOR GOOD. A COLD FRONT IS PUSHING THROUGH NORTH TEXAS THIS
MORNING...BRINGING A SLIGHTLY COOLER AIRMASS TO THE REGION. THE
FRONT IS ALSO ALLOWING A FEW SHOWERS TO DEVELOP BUT RAIN CHANCES
WILL BE SLIM OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWA...WITH BETTER
CHANCES IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL END POPS IN THE
NORTH THIS AFTERNOON...AND IN SOUTHERN PORTIONS THIS EVENING.

WHILE SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TODAY BEHIND THE
FRONT...WE WILL ONLY DROP A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. STILL...THAT
IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE TRIPLE DIGITS WE HAVE EXPERIENCED FOR WELL
OVER A WEEK. WE WILL GRADUALLY CLIMB BACK TOWARD NORMAL OVER THE
NEXT FEW DAYS...BUT SHOULD NOT SEE ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THE RECENT
PAST AS THE RIDGE REMAINS RATHER FLAT ACROSS THE NATION THIS WEEK.
DEW POINTS WILL DROP A BIT THIS WEEKEND...BUT REBOUND QUICKLY WITH
SOUTH WINDS DURING THE COMING WEEK.

THE FLAT PATTERN...WARM TEMPS AND HIGH DEW POINTS WILL ALSO ALLOW A
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEK IN
SOUTHERN PORTIONS. UNFORTUNATELY...RAIN CHANCES FOR MOST OF NORTH
TEXAS WILL BE CLOSE TO NIL AFTER TODAY. THE EXTENDED DRY PERIOD
WILL CONTINUE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE...UNLESS A TROPICAL
SYSTEM INTERVENES.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  94  71  94  72 /  20  10  10  10
WACO, TX              94  70  95  70 /  30  10  10  10
PARIS, TX             92  67  92  65 /  10  10  10  10
DENTON, TX            93  68  94  67 /  20  10  10  10
MCKINNEY, TX          93  68  94  66 /  20  10  10  10
DALLAS, TX            93  74  94  73 /  20  10  10  10
TERRELL, TX           93  69  93  68 /  20  10  10  10
CORSICANA, TX         93  69  94  70 /  30  10  10  10
TEMPLE, TX            93  69  93  70 /  30  20  10  10

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

75/42
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 2:35 AM CST, 10 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
335 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2006

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-231100-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
335 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO
WAXAHACHIE TO EMORY LINE...AND THIS EVENING SOUTH OF A LAMPASAS TO
PALESTINE LINE. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG...AND
MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

THE FIRE DANGER WILL BE ELEVATED ACROSS THE REGION TODAY DUE TO
NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH BEHIND A MID SUMMER COOL FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF A TEMPLE TO
PALESTINE LINE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AND SOUTHEAST OF A
GOLDTHWAITE TO CANTON LINE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO ORGANIZED
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
ISOLATED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING SOUTHEAST OF A TEMPLE TO ATHENS LINE.

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:12 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bell

When
July 22, 1:15 PM CST
Where
Bell County, Belton
Measured
50 kt (58 mph) estimated sustained
Property damage
$70,000
Reported by
BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates
31.067, -97.467

Several large trees uprooted and large tree limbs snapped. One huge tree fell on a transmission repair shop. Numerous power lines were blown down, as well as a light at a ballfield. A sign at a bank was ripped off. Power was out to about 1,200 people.

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.

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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: 5526784.