Drought in Texas, November 1 to 30, 2008

Name: Drought in Texas, November 1 to 30, 2008
Start: 2008-11-01T00:00
End: 2008-11-30T23:59
Location: Texas

November 1 to 30, 2008 · NWS FWD · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

S. Drought Monitor.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: $85,000
Events: 2

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.

Drought conditions worsened for portions of Bell and Milam Counties with the introduction of the Extreme Drought (D3) category as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor. According to Texas Agrilife, agricultural losses in the agricultural sector total $1.4 billion in Texas for 2008. About $1.1 billion of that is from lost crops.

What forecasters said that day

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 Oct 31, 10:09 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 10:09 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1109 PM CDT FRI OCT 31 2008

.AVIATION.../6Z UPDATE/
NO CHANGES TO PREVIOUS TAF ISSUANCE. VFR CONDS EXPECTED NEXT 24
HOURS WITH LIGHT SOUTHERLY FLOW. NO SIG AVIATION CONCERNS.

91/DUNN

&&

.UPDATE...
TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTH TX DROPPED QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET. WILL MAKE
ADJUSTMENTS TO GRIDS TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT TRENDS. DEWPOINTS
SUGGEST CURRENT OVERNIGHT LOWS OF MID 50S-LOW 60S AREAWIDE LOOK
REASONABLE. UPPER SYSTEM OVER AR CONTINUING SSE...MAY JUST BRUSH
EAST TX SATURDAY. 00Z KFWS SOUNDING SUGGESTS MOISTURE STILL LIMITED
SO WILL CONTINUE HIDDEN 10 POPS FOR EASTERN COUNTIES. NEXT SYSTEM
STILL APPEARS ON TRACK FOR WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME. WILL EVALUATE 00Z
GUIDANCE BEFORE MAKING ANY ADJUSTMENT TO MIDWEEK PORTION OF FORECAST.
..06..

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 326 PM CDT FRI OCT 31 2008/
DRY WEATHER WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH WEDNESDAY. COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE EXPECTED LATE WEDNESDAY
WILL BRING TEMPERATURES DOWN TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL FOR
LATE NEXT WEEK. OTHER THAN WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN ZONES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...NO RAIN EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 7 DAYS.

MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES EXPECTED THIS EVENING AS AFTERNOON CUMULUS
DISSIPATES QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH...CURRENTLY
ANALYZED FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO WEST TEXAS...WILL MOVE INTO NW
ZONES TONIGHT AND INTO DFW AREA ON SATURDAY. THE TROUGH WILL HAVE
LITTLE IMPACT ON SENSIBLE WEATHER OTHER THAN TO WEAKEN SURFACE
WINDS AND PERHAPS BRING A WINDSHIFT TO THE AFFECTED AREAS.

THE UPPER LOW MOVING SSE THROUGH SOUTHERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON
IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS THIS EVENING BEFORE WEAKENING
INTO LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI EARLY SATURDAY. THERE MAY BE ENOUGH
LIFT ON WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THIS SYSTEM TO ALLOW LOW-MID CLOUDS
TO PERSIST ACROSS EASTERN ZONES SATURDAY...BUT CHANCES FOR
MEASURABLE RAIN LOOK VERY LOW THIS FAR WEST. THERE COULD BE A FEW
SPRINKLES FROM HIGH-BASED SHOWERS AS FAR WEST AS A PARIS TO
PALESTINE LINE ON SATURDAY...BUT WILL NOT MENTION IN FORECAST AT
THIS TIME.

THERE IS STILL UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO RAIN CHANCES WITH THE
MIDWEEK SYSTEM. RAIN CHANCES WILL DEPEND ON HOW MUCH SHORTWAVE
ENERGY MOVES ACROSS THE NORTH TEXAS LATITUDES. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS
AGREE SOMEWHAT ON TIMING OF SYSTEM...BUT THERE ARE STILL
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES ON AMOUNT OF FORCING FOR UPWARD MOTION SOUTH
OF RED RIVER. DID NOT MAKE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE POPS FOR
MIDWEEK...WITH BEST CHANCES IN EASTERN ZONES.

09

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  61  83  61  82  60 /   5   5   0   0   5
WACO, TX              60  81  61  83  62 /   5   5   0   0   0
PARIS, TX             56  78  56  78  56 /  10  10   0   0   5
DENTON, TX            55  82  58  82  59 /   5   5   0   0   5
MCKINNEY, TX          55  80  56  79  57 /   5  10   0   0   5
DALLAS, TX            59  82  60  81  61 /   5   5   0   0   5
TERRELL, TX           58  79  59  80  59 /   5  10   0   0   5
CORSICANA, TX         58  79  60  81  58 /   5  10   0   0   0
TEMPLE, TX            59  82  60  83  60 /   5   5   0   0   0

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 31, 2:09 PM CST, 9 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
309 PM CDT FRI OCT 31 2008

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-011100-
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-
309 PM CDT FRI OCT 31 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS
THE EASTERN THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

82/JLD

The radar

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Event by event

2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.

Drought, Bell

When: November 1, 12:00 AM CST to November 30, 11:59 PM CST
Where: Bell forecast zone
Crop damage: $35,000
Reported by: Other Federal Agency
Coordinates: 31.038, -97.478 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Portions of Bell County was considered to be in Severe and Extreme Drought (D2 and D3) as defined by the Texas Drought Monitor. According to Texas Agrilife, agricultural losses in the agricultural sector total $1.4 billion in Texas for 2008. About $1.1 billion of that was from lost crops.

Drought, Milam

When: November 1, 12:00 AM CST to November 30, 11:59 PM CST
Where: Milam forecast zone
Crop damage: $50,000
Reported by: Other Federal Agency
Coordinates: 30.786, -96.977 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Drought conditions worsened for the western half of Milam County this past month. The westernmost third of the county was considered to be in Extreme (D3) Drought while other portions were put in the Severe Drought (D2) category as defined by the Texas Drought Monitor. According to Texas Agrilife, agricultural losses in the agricultural sector total $1.4 billion in Texas for 2008. About $1.1 billion of that is from lost crops.

What these are

Drought: A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, November 2008

Sources

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: 138898, 138901.