S. Drought Monitor.
Every event with a place to put it; 18 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.
Severe to Exceptional Drought continues to be observed across much of the western half of north Texas according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Crops continue to suffer or are not being planted and stock tanks are drying up due to the lack of rain. Farmers and ranchers are having to buy feed stock for cattle due to the lack of grazing areas. The fire danger continued to rise during the month with 42 of 46 counties having Burn Bans.
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 Jan 31, 11:53 PM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1153 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 .AVIATION... THE KFWS WSR 88D VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATES THAT AT 35 TO 40 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET HAS DEVELOPED AS OF 05Z. THIS SHOULD BRING SOME MVFR CEILINGS UP INTO THE WACO AREA 09-11Z. COMPUTER MODELS CONTINUE INDICATE THAT THE METROPLEX WILL BE ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE STRATUS...SO HAVE JUST PLACED SCT018 AT KAFW AND KFTW...AND INDICATED SCT-BKN018 FROM 13Z THROUGH 17-18Z AT KDFW AND KDAL. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR BY 18Z AT KDAL AND KDFW...AND BY 19Z AT KACT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND EAST OF I-35 SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT THE CHANCES ARE TOO LOW TO MENTION IN THE TAFS. A COLD FRONT SHOULD MOVE INTO THE METROPLEX BY 21Z...AND WACO BY 00Z. 58 && .UPDATE... SOUTHERLY FLOW UNDER CLEAR SKIES MAKING FOR A MUCH WARMER NIGHT THAN PREVIOUS NIGHTS. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS LOW CLOUD COVER CONFINED MAINLY ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF THIS EVENING...BUT THIS SHOULD START TO STREAM NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT AS LLJ PUMPS GULF MOISTURE NORTH. LATEST FWS VWP INDICATES 45 KTS AT 2000 FEET. EXPECTING MOST OF THE CLOUD COVER TO BE CONFINED TO THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA. COLD FRONT STILL ON SCHEDULE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTH TEXAS TOMORROW EVENING WITH SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN COUNTIES. FOR TONIGHT...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OTHER THAN TO LOWER TEMPS BY A COUPLE OF DEGREES ALONG THE RED RIVER. SOUTHERLY WINDS OVERNIGHT WILL KEEPS TEMPS MUCH WARMER THAN LAST NIGHT. 91/DUNN && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 349 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009/ WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN OVERNIGHT WILL TRANSITION TO A LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CONUS. THIS TROUGH WILL BE SLOW TO EXIT THE EASTERN SEABOARD AND THEREFORE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL PERSIST FOR MUCH THE WEEK. A WARMER NIGHT IS EXPECTED TONIGHT AS LOW LEVEL WARM AIR ADVECTION CONTINUES. COLD FRONT /WHICH IS CURRENTLY MOVING INTO NEBRASKA/ IS EXPECTED TO BE ENTERING THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES BETWEEN 12-2 PM TOMORROW AFTERNOON. THIS TIMING PRESENTS A TEMPERATURE FORECAST CHALLENGE FOR TOMORROW. IN THE NORTHWEST ZONES...WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE THINKING THAT COMPRESSIONAL HEATING AHEAD OF THE FRONT IN COMBINATION WITH CONTINUED WARM AIR ADVECTION WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO REACH THE LOWER 60S BEFORE COLDER AIR INTRUDES. FORECASTED HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTHWEST ON SUNDAY ARE VERY CLOSE TO OBSERVED TEMPERATURES AT 12 PM THIS AFTERNOON. STUCK CLOSE TO MOS ELSEWHERE WITH TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN TODAY DUE TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES EXPECTED ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA ON SUNDAY. MODELS STILL INDICATE A CHANCE FOR RAIN MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. DID NOT MAKE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO PREVIOUS POPS AND LOCATION BUT DID INCREASE CHANCE TO 50 PERCENT IN THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED AS MODELS AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE WEAK INSTABILITY AT THE SURFACE AND ABOVE DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION. FOLLOWED THE TREND OF THE PREVIOUS FORECAST IN UNDERCUTTING MOS TEMPERATURES SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. SECOND FROPA ON TUESDAY EVENING WILL HAVE MINIMAL EFFECTS BUT WILL COOL TEMPERATURES A BIT ON WEDNESDAY. THE BRUNT OF COLD AIR BEHIND THIS SECOND FRONT WILL REMAIN EAST OF OUR AREA AS THE LONGWAVE TROUGH CONTINUES TO PULL FARTHER EAST. TEMPERATURES WILL THEN WARM TO VALUES ABOVE NORMAL BEGINNING ON THURSDAY AS BREEZY SOUTHERLY WINDS AND WARM AIR ADVECTION RETURNS IN RESPONSE TO SEVERAL SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PLAINS. 82/JLD && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 44 65 34 55 33 / 0 10 10 0 0 WACO, TX 42 68 38 57 30 / 0 20 30 5 0 PARIS, TX 39 62 33 52 31 / 0 20 30 0 0 DENTON, TX 41 64 33 54 31 / 0 10 10 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 41 64 33 54 29 / 0 20 20 0 0 DALLAS, TX 45 66 35 55 35 / 0 20 20 0 0 TERRELL, TX 43 67 36 55 30 / 0 20 30 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 44 67 39 56 33 / 0 20 40 5 0 TEMPLE, TX 45 69 39 58 34 / 0 20 30 5 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 58/91
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 902 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-011200- 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- 902 PM CST SAT JAN 31 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT EAST OF A BONHAM...WHITNEY...KILLEEN LINE. ALSO...THERE IS A BRIEF OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGH FIRE DANGER OVER THE FAR WESTERN COUNTIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALONG AND BEHIND A COLD FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
18 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the northwestern half of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across most of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across most of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the northwestern parts of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the entire county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the western half of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the western half of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the western half of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the southern half of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe to Extreme Drought was observed across the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe to Extreme Drought was observed across the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Exceptional Drought was starting to affect the southwestern portions of the county.
Severe to Extreme Drought was observed across the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Exceptional Drought was starting to affect the southern border of the county.
Severe to Extreme Drought was observed across the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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, February 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: 153463, 153469, 153470, 153471, 153472, 153473, 153474, 153475, 153476, 153477, 153478, 153479, 153480, 153481, 153484, 153485, 153486, 153487.