Upper level disturbances caused thunderstorms to develop early Friday morning. Some damage was reported in Parker County.
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Upper level disturbances caused thunderstorms to develop early Friday morning. Some damage was reported in Parker County.
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 Aug 1, 4:24 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 524 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 .UPDATE... QUICK UPDATE TO ZONES TO INCLUDE 20 POPS OVER OUR WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES THIS MORNING TO BETTER REPRESENT PRECIP COVERAGE AREA. UPDATES NOW AVAILABLE. SCHULTZ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 252 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008/ MID LEVEL SHEAR AXIS THAT HAS PLAGUED THE AREA FOR THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS REMAINS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER OUR AREA...WITH POCKETS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. THE SHEAR AXIS IS ESSENTIALLY BISECTING OUR CWA...AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO SO THROUGH THE LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...BEFORE SINKING OVER OUR SOUTHERN ZONES TONIGHT. WILL KEEP ISOLATED MENTION OF THUNDER IN FORECAST TODAY...AND SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO PALESTINE LINE TONIGHT. AS LONG AS THE SHEAR AXIS REMAINS NEARBY...VERY SUBTLE DISTURBANCES IN THE LOW/MID LEVEL FLOW WILL BE ABLE TO TRIGGER ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS. OTHERWISE...FORECAST CONCERN SHIFTS TO THE HOT WEATHER. THE HOTTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS WEEKEND AND INTO NEXT WEEK. WE WILL LIKELY SEE SOME RECORD BREAKING HIGH TEMPS SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. READINGS FROM 105 TO 107 WILL BE POSSIBLE /ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF I-20/ SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE MID LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND INTO THE MISSOURI OZARKS. RISING MID LEVEL HEIGHTS...H85 TEMPS FROM 24 TO 28C...AND 1000-850MB THICKNESSES SIMILAR TO OUR 105 DEGREE DAYS WILL LEAD TO VERY HOT WEATHER OVER THE UPCOMING DAYS. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 110 OVER MUCH OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY THE EASTERN HALF OF OUR CWA. SUNDAY AND MONDAY...HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY EVEN EXCEED 110 IN AND AROUND THE METROPLEX. GIVEN THE FORECAST HEAT INDEX VALUES AND LITTLE RELIEF FROM OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPS /PARTICULARLY IN OUR EAST/...WE HAVE EXPANDED THE HEAT ADVISORY TO INCLUDE MILAM...LEON...AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES...AND HAVE EXTENDED THE ADVISORY THROUGH MONDAY. MODELS ARE STILL DEPICTING AN EASTERLY TROPICAL WAVE MOVING ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY...BUT TIMING AND LOCATION HAVE CHANGED SINCE YESTERDAY/S MODEL RUNS. ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY REMAINS HIGH WITH THIS FEATURE...THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE. THIS HIGHER ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONTENT SHOULD BRING A SLIGHT COOL DOWN...WITH HIGH TEMPS ONLY CLIMBING INTO THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100 ON WEDNESDAY. A BETTER CHANCE OF RAIN MAY COME LATE NEXT WEEK DUE TO A WEAKNESS IN THE MID LEVEL FLOW AND SURGING GULF MOISTURE. AS A RESULT... HAVE INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THURS. SCHULTZ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 103 80 105 80 106 / 10 10 5 5 0 WACO, TX 102 78 103 78 104 / 10 10 10 5 0 PARIS, TX 100 78 102 78 104 / 10 10 5 5 0 DENTON, TX 101 77 104 77 105 / 10 10 5 5 0 MCKINNEY, TX 100 78 103 75 105 / 10 10 5 5 0 DALLAS, TX 102 80 104 82 105 / 10 10 5 5 0 TERRELL, TX 101 78 102 77 104 / 10 10 5 5 0 CORSICANA, TX 100 78 101 78 102 / 10 10 5 5 0 TEMPLE, TX 100 78 101 74 103 / 10 10 10 5 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ094-095-103>107-118>123-133>135-145>148-158>162-174-175. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 313 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-021100- 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- 313 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY...AND SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO WACO TO PALESTINE LINE TONIGHT. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO FORT WORTH TO KILLEEN LINE. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 110 OVER MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM 105 TO 110 OVER MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCHULTZ
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
At one residence a sunroom was blown off of a back porch, and a power pole fell across the roof of the house.
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