S. Drought Monitor.
Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Counties in the Waco/Temple/Killeen area were considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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 Jun 23, 10:15 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1117 PM PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 .AVIATION... NO CHANGE TO TAF PACKAGES...VFR THRU PERIOD. STORMS ALONG DRY LINE WILL DIE OFF WITH THE SUN. NO SHEAR TO FORM A COLD POOL AND DRIVE THEM EAST. 84 && .UPDATE... 827 PM WE WILL SEE SOME CIRRUS DEBRIS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN PANHANDLE SPREAD SOUTHEAST INTO NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. THESE CLOUDS WILL THIN AS THEY MOVE INTO THE REGION AND EXPECT LITTLE AFFECT ON THE OVERNIGHT LOWS. TOMORROW SHOULD BE ANOTHER WARM ONE...THE ONLY QUESTION IS HOW HOT WILL WE GET. ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES ALOFT SHOW LITTLE CHANGE...SURFACE WINDS SHOULD BE MORE SOUTHERLY. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN SLIGHTLY HIGHER DEWPOINTS TOMORROW. HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES MAINLY ACROSS THE WEST AND CENTRAL AREAS...BUT HAVE NOT STILL KEPT THEM AT OR A COUPLE OF DEGREES COOLER THAN TODAY. #58 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 555 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008/ AVIATION... VFR THRU PERIOD WITH CONTINUED SSE SURFACE WINDS. 84 DISCUSSION... 239 PM VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWS A CU FIELD OVER ROUGHLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR TWO HAS POPPED UP IN THIS AREA. THIS ACTIVITY IS WEAK AND SHOULD DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. MAXIMUM TEMP SO FAR TODAY AT DFW IS 99 DEGREES AND SHOULD STAY A COUPLE DEGREES SHY OF BREAKING THE 104 DEGREE RECORD. NORTH TEXAS WILL STAY UNDERNEATH SUBTROPICAL HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WITH THE MAIN STORM TRACK ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND SOUTHERN CANADA. UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL BECOME MORE ZONAL BY TOMORROW AS THE EAST COAST TROUGH WEAKENS. DURING THIS TIME NORTH TEXAS WILL REMAIN ON THE EASTERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER RIDGE. HIGH TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO SOAR INTO THE LOW TO MIDS 90S THROUGH THE WEEK...BUT NO 100 DEGREE TEMPS ARE FORECAST AT THE MOMENT. RAIN CHANCES WILL RETURN FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN ZONES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS INCREASING MOISTURE INTERACTS WITH A PASSING SHORTWAVE. BY SATURDAY THE FLOW BECOMES MORE AMPLIFIED AS AN OMEGA BLOCK TRIES TO FORM. A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT/MCS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER SATURDAY NIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY BEFORE WEAKENING. THIS EVENT WILL REPRESENT THE NEXT GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. SH/13 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 74 99 75 96 75 / 0 0 0 10 10 WACO, TX 73 99 74 96 75 / 0 0 5 20 10 PARIS, TX 69 93 70 94 70 / 0 0 5 10 10 DENTON, TX 71 97 74 93 74 / 0 0 0 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 69 93 72 93 73 / 0 0 0 10 10 DALLAS, TX 76 97 77 94 77 / 0 0 0 10 10 TERRELL, TX 71 95 71 92 73 / 0 0 5 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 72 95 72 93 73 / 0 5 5 20 10 TEMPLE, TX 71 97 71 93 73 / 0 0 5 20 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 58/58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 830 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-241100- 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- 830 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SOUTHEAST OF AN EMORY...TO HILLSBORO...TO GATESVILLE LINE. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN SUNDAY MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Milam County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D3) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
McLennan County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Bell County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Falls County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Limestone County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Robertson County was considered to be in Severe Drought (D2) according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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, June 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: 107247, 110857, 110858, 110859, 110860, 110861.