An upper level low lingered in the area creating conditions ripe for flooding. Several instances of flash flooding were reported as a large area of rain persisted through mid-morning.
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An upper level low lingered in the area creating conditions ripe for flooding. Several instances of flash flooding were reported as a large area of rain persisted through mid-morning.
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 Sep 4, 10:53 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1153 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 .AVIATION... 06Z TAF PACKAGE LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN TO CONTINUE AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING. RAIN MAY BE ON AND OFF AT TIMES BUT PRESENT ENOUGH THROUGH THE NEXT 12 HOURS TO KEEP AS PREVAILING. RAIN SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST ON WEDNESDAY WITH MOST OF THE RAIN SHIFTING EAST BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. HAVE USED A CB GROUP FOR NOW TO INDICATE CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON BUT MODELS INDICATE MOST OF RAIN WILL BE EAST OF ALL AIRPORTS. HEAVIER SHOWERS THAT AFFECT AN AIRPORT MAY BRIEFLY RESULT IN IFR VISIBILITES AND POSSIBLY CEILINGS. REDUCED VISIBILITES DUE TO RAIN AND MIST WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH LOW CIGS MOVING IN EARLY MORNING. CURRENTLY HAVE MVFR CIGS IN A TEMPO GROUP BUT IFR CIGS COULD BRIEFLY OCCUR AT A FEW SITES. CONDITIONS SHOULD BEGIN TO IMPROVE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THROUGH THE EVENING. 82/JLD && PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 620 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007/ 620 PM PUBLIC UPDATE... WE HAVE EDITED THE GRIDS AND ZONE FORECAST TO 1) COOL TEMPERATURES AND DEW POINT TEMPERATURES OFF IN THE RAIN AREAS...AND 2) RAISE RAIN CHANCES IN THE SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND NORTHEAST AREA...WHERE LIGHT RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE. WE LIKELY WILL UPDATE AGAIN THIS EVENING...AS THE LIGHT RAIN/ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM PATTERN CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. #26 DISCUSSION... WET PATTERN CONTINUES TODAY AND TOMORROW WITH LIKELY POPS. AS UPPER TROF SHIFTS A BIT EAST WEDNESDAY HIGHEST POPS SHIFT EAST AS WELL. THU AND FRI SHOULD BE THE DRIEST DAYS OF THE WEEK AS A NEW FRONT MOVES INTO THE RED RIVER ON SAT. YESTERDAY THE MODELS BROUGHT THE FRONT ALL THE WAY SOUTH ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...BUT TODAY MODELS STALL IT OUT SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER...AND WEEKEND HIGH TEMPS ARE WARMER THAN WE FORECAST YESTERDAY TO REFLECT THE FRONT/S FARTHER NORTH POSITION AND THE WEAKER COLD AIR ADVECTION BEHIND THE FRONT. LOW POPS CONTINUE THROUGH DAY SEVEN AS FRONT STAYS STALLED IN THE AREA AWAITING A POSSIBLE REINFORCING SHOT OF COOL AIR ON WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 88 71 88 75 93 / 90 90 60 20 20 WACO, TX 85 72 89 75 93 / 90 90 60 20 20 PARIS, TX 89 71 85 72 92 / 60 90 70 40 30 DENTON, TX 87 71 89 75 93 / 70 90 50 20 20 MCKINNEY, TX 87 71 88 73 92 / 70 90 60 30 20 DALLAS, TX 87 71 88 75 92 / 80 90 60 20 20 TERRELL, TX 87 71 87 73 91 / 70 90 70 30 30 CORSICANA, TX 87 72 88 74 92 / 70 90 70 30 30 TEMPLE, TX 84 73 88 74 92 / 80 90 60 20 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 82/26/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 920 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-051100- 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- 920 PM CDT TUE SEP 4 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SHIFTS EAST OVER NORTH TEXAS. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A DAILY CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR WITHIN THE STRONGER STORMS. RAIN CHANCES WILL TAPER OFF AFTER WEDNESDAY BUT THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...WILL STILL EXIST EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:57 UTC.
11 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An 8-foot tall by 30-foot long culvert covered with 7 feet of dirt was washed away, leaving a 20-foot gap in a road. The culvert had been in place for about 45 years.
Forty to fifty high water rescues were required in between Keene and Venus. Portions of Highway 171 in Cleburne and Highway 287 were flooded, and a total of 17 roads were closed. The worst flooding was reportedly between Highway 67 and FM 917 near Lillian. One home in Lillian was flooded by about two-and-a-half feet of water.
Several streets were flooded in Lancaster, and at least one home was flooded. Interstate 35 was flooded as well.
Thunderstorm winds broke tree limbs. A truck was damaged by one of the falling limbs.
Shawnee Road was flooded where it crosses Red Oak Creek. Interstate 35 east was also flooded. Several vehicles had to be pulled out of high water.
This brief tornado developed near the community of Richland and moved to the northeast, causing minor tree damage to the west of Highway 14.
This tornado formed roughly two miles east-southeast of the first tornado. Damage was first noted along CR 2410 just north of the Freestone County line. Trees were uprooted and trunks and large limbs snapped as the tornado moved northeast. A barn was destroyed roughly one mile west of Interstate 45, and two metal transmission line towers were damaged 1/2 miles west of the interstate. The tornado dissipated shortly after crossing Interstate 45.
Highway 36 was flooded near Flat. Plum Creek flooded CR 106 and CR 107, and Coryell Creek flooded CR 213, CR 274, and Winters Road. The City of Gatesville closed Brown Park on West Leon Stret and Faunt Le Roy Park when the Leon River overflowed its banks. FM 1829 was also flooded in Mound.
Several roads between the two cities were flooded and closed including FM 309 and Highways 81, 171, and 22. A man was swept down Cottonwood Creek after trying to cross FM 309 in his truck and abandoning it. He had to be rescued from a tree about 250 yards downstream.
The following roads were flooded and closed temporarily: Highway 927, Highway 219, CR 2490, CR 1190, CR 3125, and CR 3310.
Vehicles were swept off of CR 2302 N near Aquilla and CR 1414 near Blum due to flooding.
FM 66 between the two towns was flooded.
Numerous roads were flooded across the county, including North Burnet Street and Seventh Avenue and Boston Street in downtown Corsicana.
High water was reported over city streets.
The east fork of the Trinity River was at least a foot out of it's banks along the Dallas/Kaufman County line.
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