Gradient winds between high pressure to the east and developing low pressure to the west caused winds to increase to 20 to 30 MPH with gusts in the upper 30s across North Texas.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Gradient winds between high pressure to the east and developing low pressure to the west caused winds to increase to 20 to 30 MPH with gusts in the upper 30s across North Texas.
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 Jan 11, 5:45 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 545 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007 .AVIATION... MVFR CEILINGS MOVED INTO THE AREA EARLIER THIS MORNING AND DO NOT EXPECT MUCH IMPROVEMENT TODAY OR EVEN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. WE COULD SEE SOME BRIEF VFR CONDITIONS BUT MVFR CEILINGS WILL QUICKLY RETURN. WINDS WILL AGAIN BE GUSTY FROM THE SOUTH THROUGH TONIGHT. LATER TONIGHT...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS TO MOVE INTO THE AREA THEN BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND MIX WITH THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS...CEILINGS...VSBYS...AND WEATHER...WILL BE A PROBLEM THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS AN ARCTIC FRONT MOVES THROUGH SATURDAY. 42 && .UPDATE... 354 AM 06Z NAM WETTER ON SUNDAY...SO HAVE UPPED POPS MAINLY IN THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST HALVES OF THE AREA TO BETTER MESH WITH NEW MODEL DATA AND NEIGHBORING OFFICES. 84 && .DISCUSSION... 319 AM STILL NO CONSENSUS BY THE MODELS. HAVE KEPT TEMPERATURES BETWEEN THE COLDER NAM AND WARMER GFS...THINKING THAT THE GFS IS STILL STUCK ON BRINGING A WAVE ACROSS THE FRONT TO HOLD UP THE COLD AIR...AND AIR THAT COLD WILL NOT BE HELD UP BUT WILL HEAD ON SOUTH MORE LIKE THE NAM IS FORECASTING. GFS HAS LESS OF A WAVE THAN YESTERDAY/S RUN SO IT MAY BE MOVING MORE TOWARDS THE NAM/S SOLUTION. GFS RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY FOR NEXT WEEK IS STILL POOR...IT BRINGS A MONDAY AFTERNOON DISTURBANCE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY WHEN YESTERDAY IT HAD THE DISTURBANCE OVER THE GULF. AS IS USUAL...WE ARE RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE WINTER WEATHER AND MODEL ACCURACY IS NOT WHAT WE NEED TO PIN DOWN THE FORECAST. THE NAM HAS US COLDER BUT DRIER...GFS IS WETTER BUT WARMER. FLIP A COIN...ROLL THE DICE...TAKE YOUR CHANCES. FORECASTING WINTER WEATHER HERE IN NORTH TEXAS IS A LOT LIKE POLITICS...IT/S BEST TO JUST STAY ON THE FENCE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE BEFORE COMMITTING TO ANYTHING. 84 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 67 60 61 47 48 / 10 30 40 80 70 WACO, TX 68 61 68 55 55 / 10 30 40 40 70 PARIS, TX 61 57 62 50 50 / 10 30 40 80 80 DENTON, TX 67 59 60 45 45 / 10 30 40 80 70 MCKINNEY, TX 66 61 61 47 47 / 10 30 40 80 70 DALLAS, TX 67 59 64 49 50 / 10 30 40 80 70 TERRELL, TX 67 59 66 51 53 / 10 30 40 80 70 CORSICANA, TX 67 59 68 57 57 / 10 30 40 60 70 TEMPLE, TX 67 61 69 61 61 / 10 30 40 40 60 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 42/82
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 258 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-121200- 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- 258 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY...WITH STORMS BECOMING MORE WIDESPREAD OVER THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG BEFORE A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. BEHIND THE FRONT...THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH. AT THE SAME TIME...TEMPERATURES WILL RAPIDLY PLUMMET...AND MAY FALL BELOW FREEZING BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS IN THE NORTHWEST. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE SPEED OF THE FRONT AND ARRIVAL OF THE COLD AIR BEFORE THE RAINS END. THUS...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...GENERALLY TO THE NORTHWEST OF A COMANCHE...WEATHERFORD...BONHAM LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A billboard was blown down onto power lines near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Interstate 20 in south Fort Worth.
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