A wildfire over 2000 acres resulted in over a dozen residential evacuations.
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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.
A wildfire over 2000 acres resulted in over a dozen residential evacuations.
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 Apr 3, 10:26 PM CST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1126 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 .AVIATION... SE FLO 10-13 KTS WILL VEERY SLY ARND 15 KTS BY DAYBREAK. SOME MVFR STRATUS TO ARRIVE AFTER 12Z/SUNRISE MAJORITY OF N TX AIRPORTS AND SHOULD LINGER ONLY THROUGH 15Z-16Z BEFORE MIXING AND SLY WINDS PICK UP. HAVE ADDED GUSTS PER STRONG SLY GRADIENT AND DEEP SFC LOW MOVING OFF THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES AND ACROSS KS. VFR PREVAILS AFTER 18Z SAT WITH CD FROPA EXPECTED AFTR 06Z SUN...OR MORE AROUND 09Z FOR D/FW AREA. 05/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 325 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009/ SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS RETURNED TO NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SURFACE TROUGH DEEPENS. A SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WEST OF LAS VEGAS...WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS SATURDAY. IT LOOKS LIKES THE MOISTURE WILL BE LIMITED...THE BEST DYNAMICS WILL BE WELL TO OUR NORTH...AND WE WILL BE CAPPED...THUS THE FRONT WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH DRY SATURDAY NIGHT. IT WILL BE BREEZY BEHIND THE FRONT SUNDAY. THE COMBINATION OF THE GUSTY NORTHWESTERLY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER. IT WILL BE COLD MONDAY MORNING WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING INTO THE 30S TO LOWER 40S. DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH WIND SPEEDS DECREASE MONDAY MORNING...A FEW SPOTS ACROSS THE WEST AND NORTH MAY REACH FREEZING. WINDS WILL COME BACK AROUND TO THE SOUTH BY TUESDAY NIGHT AS LEE SIDE TROUGH DEVELOPS AHEAD OF THE NEXT SHORTWAVE. WE WILL SEE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT MOVES THROUGH NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY. RAIN CHANCES LOOK A LITTLE BETTER AREAWIDE FOR NEXT WEEKEND AS ANOTHER SYSTEM APPROACHES. 58 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 53 79 53 63 38 / 0 5 10 5 5 WACO, TX 52 80 55 67 38 / 5 5 10 5 5 PARIS, TX 49 77 53 61 35 / 5 5 10 10 5 DENTON, TX 52 81 49 63 37 / 0 5 10 5 5 MCKINNEY, TX 51 78 51 64 36 / 5 5 10 5 5 DALLAS, TX 54 80 53 66 38 / 5 5 10 5 5 TERRELL, TX 51 80 55 62 36 / 5 5 10 5 5 CORSICANA, TX 52 80 58 65 39 / 5 5 10 10 5 TEMPLE, TX 51 80 57 71 39 / 5 5 10 5 5 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/58
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 340 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041100- 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- 340 PM CDT FRI APR 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE WILL BE AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER BEHIND A COLD FRONT ON SUNDAY WITH GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DUNN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A 2,170 acre wildfire occurred in Jack County. No structures were destroyed but 12-18 residents had to be evacuated for a few hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2009
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: 164800.