Storms developed along outflow boundaries from thunderstorms across Oklahoma.
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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 episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Storms developed along outflow boundaries from thunderstorms across Oklahoma.
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 29, 10:49 AM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1149 AM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS OVER NORTH TEXAS. AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND TSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND AGAIN TOMORROW. HAVE INDICATED THIS WITH A CB GROUP INSTEAD OF TSRA AS ACTIVITY WILL BE SCATTERED IN NATURE AND HARD TO PINPOINT. LIGHT 5-10 KT WINDS WILL BE ESE DURING THE DAY AND EVEN LIGHTER AND ENE OVERNIGHT. SH/13 && .UPDATE... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS OVER NORTH TEXAS THIS MORNING AS PER THE 12Z FWD SOUNDING. 11 AM TEMPERATURES ARE NEAR OR JUST BELOW CONVECTIVE TEMPS SO EXPECT SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THERE IS NO REAL FOCUSING MECHANISM AT THE SURFACE OR ALOFT SO ACTIVITY WILL BE VERY SCATTERED. THE CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE IS ON TRACK. WILL ONLY MAKE SOME MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE HOURLY GRIDS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 225 AM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008/ THIS MORNING WILL MAKE LITTLE SOUTHWARD PROGRESS THROUGH THE REST OF THE DAY. IT SHOULD HELP FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS BY THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED AS FAR SOUTH AS OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. ANY ORGANIZED CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP IN OKLAHOMA MAY SUSTAIN NEW DEVELOPMENT FARTHER SOUTH ALONG OUTFLOWS. MID LEVEL WEAKNESS PERSISTS OVER THE BIG BEND REGION WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THAT AREA. NORTH TEXAS WILL BE IN BETWEEN BOTH AREAS...BUT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. FORECAST SOUNDINGS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS ONCE AGAIN EXHIBIT INVERTED-V PROFILE THIS AFTERNOON INDICATIVE OF HIGHER BASED TSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. UPPER PATTERN BECOMES MORE AMPLIFIED OVER THE WEEKEND WITH CONTINUED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS INTO SATURDAY. MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE CONTINUES ITS VARYING SOLUTIONS FOR GUSTAV AND HANNA THROUGH NEXT WEEK...BUT CONSENSUS IS STILL CLUSTERED ON THE CENTRAL LOUISIANA COAST ON TUESDAY FOR GUSTAV. HAVE MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS UPWARD IN POPS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY ESPECIALLY OVER THE EAST. STILL TOO EARLY TO PIN DOWN SPECIFICS ON RAINFALL AND TEMPS BUT WILL CONTINUE TO REFINE FORECAST DURING THAT TIMEFRAME. OTHERWISE...TEMPS CONTINUE TO BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 98 78 97 77 96 / 20 20 20 10 10 WACO, TX 96 74 95 74 95 / 20 20 20 10 10 PARIS, TX 95 73 92 72 92 / 20 20 20 10 10 DENTON, TX 97 74 95 74 94 / 20 20 20 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 96 73 94 72 93 / 20 20 20 10 10 DALLAS, TX 97 78 96 76 95 / 20 20 20 10 10 TERRELL, TX 97 73 94 74 94 / 20 20 20 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 95 73 94 73 93 / 20 20 20 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 95 72 94 72 94 / 20 20 20 10 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 13/79
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 146 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-301100- 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- 146 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD DECREASE AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY AND AGAIN TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 13
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
203 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008
TXZ134-291930-
ELLIS TX-
203 PM CDT FRI AUG 29 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
ELLIS COUNTY
AT 203 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS ELLIS COUNTY WITH
THE STRONGEST JUST NORTH OF ENNIS. MOST OF THE STORMS ARE MOVING
WEST AT 8 MPH...WHILE SOME ARE NEARLY STATIONARY.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALMA...BARDWELL...ENNIS...
ITALY...MAYPEARL...MIDLOTHIAN...OAK LEAF...PALMER...RED OAK AND
WAXAHACHIE.
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...ISOLATED PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50
MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SOME OF THESE STORMS.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.
LAT...LON 3233 9641 3208 9693 3228 9707 3255 9708
3252 9652 3238 9644 3236 9645 3234 9643
3234 9642
TIME...MOT...LOC 1903Z 090DEG 7KT 3238 9661The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:06 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 MPH wind gust was measured by an ASOS at Dallas Love Field.
Several trees along with a high school scoreboard were blown down. Several trees fell across roadways.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2008
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: 131846, 134036.