Drought conditions improved across the western counties of north Texas this month but worsened across the southern counties. Exceptional Drought was declared in Milam County by the end of the month.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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.
Drought conditions improved across the western counties of north Texas this month but worsened across the southern counties. Exceptional Drought was declared in Milam County by the end of the month. Local farmers and ranchers continued to suffer due to minimal rainfall received across the southern counties of north Texas. Corn and Sorghum was suffering and supplemental feeding continued. Several bodies of water were at levels below average and many communities across north Texas enacted water conservation orders. Twelve counties had Burn Bans this month.
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 May 31, 10:04 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1104 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT WITH SCATTERED CIRRUS AT NIGHT AND SCATTERED CU DURING THE DAY MONDAY. A SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WIND WILL PREVAIL BETWEEN 6 AND 10 KNOTS TONIGHT AND FROM 11 TO 14 KNOTS FROM MID MORNING MONDAY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THE BEST STORM CHANCES MONDAY WILL BE WELL TO THE WEST OF TAF SITES. 79 && .UPDATE... HAVE REMOVED POPS AND MENTION OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE EVENING FORECAST. ALSO MADE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS TO HOURLY SKY/TEMP/DEWPOINT FOR THE REMAINING EVENING HOURS. DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DISSIPATED WITH ONLY ISOLATED VERY LIGHT RAIN/SPRINKLES STILL LINGERING WEST OF I-35 /WHICH SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER 9PM/. UPDATES AVAILABLE SHORTLY. SCHULTZ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 247 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009/ SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE CONTINUES TO SLOWLY LIFT NE UNDERNEATH BROAD/ WEAK UPPER RIDGE...WHILE THE WRN HALF OF NORTH TX AWAITS DEEPER MOISTURE TO ARRIVE FROM SSW. CURRENTLY...DRY-AIR ENTRAINMENT IS REALLY THE ONLY THING KEEP TOWERS ACROSS NORTH TX FROM DEVELOPING INTO WIDELY SCT STORMS WEST OF I-35. FEEL THIS WILL STILL OCCUR BY 00Z MON/6-7 PM LOCAL TIME WITH LAPSE RATES/INSTABILITY COMBINING WITH LIFTING MECHANISM AND PEAK DAYTIME HEATING FOR A FEW STRONG STORMS...POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WITH MICROBURST WINDS AND A LITTLE HAIL. SO WE WAIT. BY LATE EVENING/OVERNIGHT...ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN RELEGATED TO IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF SHORTWAVE WEST OF OUR COUNTIES WITH ANOTHER RE-FIRING OF SOME ISOLATED STORMS OVER NW COUNTIES LATE MON AFTN INTO MON EVENING...WITH SEASONABLY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER EXPECTED. LATE MON NIGHT AND THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY TUESDAY SHOULD REMAIN QUIET... AS WE AWAIT COLD FRONT AND NW FLOW DISTURBANCE EJECTING ESE OUT OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES ACROSS THE CENTRAL/SRN PLAINS. THINK WEAK FRONT AND DISTURBANCE PUSH TO THE RED RIVER VICINITY FROM THE NW LATER TUES NIGHT/WED MORNING...POSSIBLY DEVELOPING CONVECTION IN THE FORM OF A LATE SEASON MCS. SOME BRIEF DISSIPATION THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS WEDNESDAY...BEFORE DAYTIME HEATING GETS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACTIVE ONCE AGAIN BY WED AFTERNOON. CANT RULE OUT SOME SEVERE WEATHER HERE...ESPECIALLY DAMAGING WINDS AND SOME LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IN THESE SCENARIOS. BY WED NIGHT...FRONT PUSHES ESE AWAY FROM AWAY WITH RAIN CHANCES ENDING FROM NW TO SE ACROSS THE AREA WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER/DRIER CONDITIONS EXPECTED BRIEFLY ON THURSDAY RELATIVE TO SEASONAL NORMS. SUB-TROPICAL UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFIES QUICKLY FROM MEXICO ACROSS THE SRN PLAINS WITH HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS RETURNING TO THE AREA FRI INTO NEXT WEEKEND. HEAT INDICES MAY OR MAY NOT BE A CONCERN FOR NEXT WEEKEND. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 69 90 68 90 69 / 5 5 10 10 40 WACO, TX 65 90 67 91 69 / 10 5 10 10 20 PARIS, TX 65 90 65 88 68 / 5 5 5 10 30 DENTON, TX 66 90 67 90 67 / 5 5 10 10 50 MCKINNEY, TX 64 89 66 89 67 / 5 5 10 10 40 DALLAS, TX 70 90 70 90 69 / 5 5 10 10 30 TERRELL, TX 65 89 66 89 69 / 5 5 10 10 20 CORSICANA, TX 64 89 67 90 69 / 5 5 10 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 64 90 66 91 69 / 10 5 10 20 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 79/21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 819 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-020130- 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- 819 PM CDT SUN MAY 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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
754 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 2009
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0635 PM TSTM WND DMG 8 NE LAMPASAS 31.15N 98.09W
05/31/2009 LAMPASAS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
UNKNOWN SIZE TREE BLOWN DOWN AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
SIGN BLOWN IN ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY 580.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe Drought conditions were observed across Young County during the first half of June according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Conditions improved by mid month due to rainfall over the county.
Severe Drought conditions were observed across Stephens County during the first half of June according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Conditions improved by mid month due to rainfall over the county.
Drought conditions continued to worsen across Milam County during the month of June according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Extreme Drought was observed across the county for most of the month, but Exceptional Drought was declared across the southern third of the county by the end of the month. Rain amounts during the month continued to be below normal across the county.
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, June 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: 180538, 180539, 180540.