1 heat, 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 Jul 27, 1:33 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 233 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006 .DISCUSSION... SUBSIDENCE AND DOWN SLOPING FLOW CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO GET OUT OF CONTROL THIS AFTERNOON WITH 100 DEGREES SHOWING UP AGAIN ON THE MAP. SHOWERS AND STORMS REMAIN CONFINED TO THE EASTERN ZONES WHERE BETTER MOISTURE IS INTERACTING WITH DIURNAL HEATING. SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...BUT ONCE HEATING IS LOST...IT SPELLS THE CERTAIN END FOR RAIN CHANCES ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA FOR QUITE SOME TIME. BREEZY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS COMPLEMENTS OF AN UNUSUALLY STRONG LOW LEVEL JET FOR LATE JULY. STRONGER SURFACE WINDS WILL INCREASE WILDFIRE DANGER AS DAYTIME HUMIDITY DIPS BELOW 35 PERCENT. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO WARM OVER THE WEEKEND AS WEAK UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN AND SITS OVER NORTH TEXAS. NO RECORD BREAKING HEAT WAVE EXPECTED THIS TIME AROUND...BUT LOCAL TEMPERATURE STUDY SUGGESTS THAT THE MEX GUIDANCE IS A LITTLE TOO COOL. TEMPERATURES WILL FLIRT WITH 100 FOR MUCH OF THE AREA SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE RIDGE BREAKS DOWN AND TEMPERATURES SHOULD COOL INTO THE UPPER 90S LATE IN THE FORECAST PERIOD. RAINFALL OPPORTUNITIES LOOK BLEAK AND ARE CONFINED TO THE RED RIVER COUNTIES LATE TONIGHT FOR ISOLATED RESIDUAL RAIN FROM MORE ABUNDANT ACTIVITY IN OKLAHOMA. ALSO THE EXTREME EAST WILL HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THE LONG RANGE GFS SOLUTION IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE ECMWF...AND I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT A FRONT MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK WOULD HAPPEN WITH SUCH A ZONAL PATTERN. PERHAPS A HINT OF NW FLOW ALOFT WILL GIVE US SOME BETTER INSTABILITY TO WORK WITH...BUT MOISTURE PROGS FROM THE ECMWF DO NOT SUPPORT A FORECAST OF RAIN IN WORDED FORECASTS AT THIS TIME. TR.92 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 78 97 78 99 / 10 10 0 0 WACO, TX 77 97 76 98 / 10 10 10 0 PARIS, TX 74 94 74 96 / 20 20 10 20 DENTON, TX 77 98 76 100 / 10 10 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 75 96 76 97 / 10 10 10 0 DALLAS, TX 80 97 79 98 / 10 10 0 0 TERRELL, TX 73 95 75 97 / 10 20 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 76 96 75 96 / 10 20 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 75 95 75 97 / 10 10 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281100- 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- 330 PM CDT THU JUL 27 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF A BOWIE...VALLEY VIEW...COOPER LINE. GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH... BRIEF...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND LIGHTNING ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE GRASS FIRE DANGER WILL REMAIN ELEVATED NORTHWEST OF A GOLDTHWAITE...HILLSBORO...SHERMAN LINE THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY...MAINLY EAST OF A SHERMAN...CORSICANA...CAMERON LINE FRIDAY. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY IN THE EXTREME EASTERN COUNTIES OF NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. 26
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A four-year-old boy died of heat exposure after he was left unattended at a playground in Balch Springs. The boy did not have any water. High temperatures on this day were in the lower 100s with low temperatures in the mid 70s. Local heat advisory criteria was not met on this day.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Dallas | 2006-07-27 | 4 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2006
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: 5528068.