Severe Drought expanded into southern portions of north Texas by the middle of the month.
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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.
Severe Drought expanded into southern portions of north Texas by the middle of the 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 Mar 9, 10:48 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1148 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 .AVIATION... /06Z TAFS/ NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO ONGOING TAF PACKAGE. STRATUS WILL ARRIVE BEFORE DAYBREAK. PREFRONTAL PRECIP TUESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING STILL APPEARS TOO SCATTERED TO INCLUDE AT THIS POINT. FROPA NOW APPEARS IN ALL METRO TAFS. POSTFRONTAL COLD RAIN LIKELY NEAR OR BEYOND 06Z TAFDFW...NEAR OR AFTER DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY WHEN COLD RAIN BEGINS. 25 && .UPDATE... STORMS NEAR ABILENE WEAKENED DRASTICALLY ONCE ENCOUNTERING THE STRENGTHENING CAP OVER NORTH TEXAS THAT THE RUC13 HAS NOTED TO OCCUR THROUGH 05Z/MIDNIGHT. REMOVED SEVERE WORDING FOR FAR NW COUNTIES BUT KEPT LOW POPS FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS. RUC DOES SHOW CAP WEAKENING A BIT AGAIN AFTER 09Z/4 AM...SO SOME THUNDER COULD REDEVELOP WEST OF I-35 TOWARD DAYBREAK TUESDAY...BUT IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE AND BE GENERALLY UNDER THE SLOW-RISING CAP. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE PREVALENT TUES/TUES NIGHT... ONCE CAP MOSTLY ERODES...WITH COLD FRONT STILL COMING IN BY WED MORNING... WITH MODELS ADVERTISING GOOD POST-FRONTAL RAIN CHANCES WED/THURS. 05/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 328 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009/ WARM FRONT HAS SURGED NORTHWARD TODAY WITH 60S DEW POINTS REACHING WELL INTO OKLAHOMA. A DRYLINE WAS LOCATED NEAR A PRATT KS TO MIDLAND TX LINE AND WILL NOT REACH OUT WESTERN COUNTIES BEFORE SUNSET. RUC FORECAST SOUNDINGS IN OUR FAR NORTHWEST COUNTIES STILL SHOW A SMALL CAP EVEN AT 22Z (5 PM CDT). STILL...ELEVATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NW PORTION OF OUR CWA...BUT BETTER INSTABILITY AND THUS A BETTER CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN TO OUR WEST AND NORTH. A SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS TOMORROW...HELPING TO PUSH A DRYLINE AND A COLD FRONT INTO NORTH TEXAS. THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN DOES NOT LOOK CONDUCIVE TO SEVERE WEATHER...WITH THE MAIN DYNAMICS TO OUR NORTH AND CONFLUENT UPPER LEVEL FLOW OVER EAST TEXAS. TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL LIKELY REACH THE MID 80S IN THE WEST THANKS TO VEERING LOW LEVEL WINDS. TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LOOK MUCH COOLER WITH HIGHS ONLY TOPPING OUT IN THE LOWER TO MID 40S ON THURSDAY. THANKFULLY INSULATING CLOUD COVER AND SHOWERS WILL HELP KEEP LOW TEMPERATURES ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS ISENTROPIC LIFT INCREASES AND THE SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE JET STREAM REMAINS ACTIVE. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW VERY HIGH POPS FOR THIS TIME FRAME AND HPC GUIDANCE INDICATES QPF OF OVER 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN SOME LOCATIONS. MOST OF NORTH TEXAS LOOKS TO RECEIVE AT LEAST AN INCH OF RAIN BEFORE THE EVENT IS OVER. ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH BY SUNDAY NIGHT AS THE MEAN TROUGH AXIS MOVES EAST. SH/13 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 65 83 51 52 41 / 5 20 40 60 60 WACO, TX 64 82 57 58 43 / 5 10 30 80 70 PARIS, TX 62 78 49 53 38 / 5 20 60 70 60 DENTON, TX 64 82 48 52 37 / 10 20 30 60 50 MCKINNEY, TX 63 79 48 53 39 / 5 20 40 70 60 DALLAS, TX 65 82 49 52 40 / 5 20 40 70 60 TERRELL, TX 63 80 53 53 42 / 5 20 50 70 70 CORSICANA, TX 63 80 54 55 42 / 5 10 40 80 70 TEMPLE, TX 63 80 60 61 43 / 5 10 30 80 70 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 25/05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1018 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-110330- 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- 1018 PM CDT MON MAR 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY WEST OF A BOWIE... MINERAL WELLS...STEPHENVILLE LINE OVERNIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...BUT A FEW STRONG STORMS ACROSS THIS AREA COULD PRODUCE PEA HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH...AS A CAPPING INVERSION REMAINS ENTRENCHED OVER MOST OF NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS COLDER AIR MOVES INTO NORTH TEXAS ON WEDNESDAY...ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE EMBEDDED IN AREAS OF RAIN THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THESE STORMS COULD POSE A HAIL RISK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 05/
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 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 southern portions of the county as defined by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Severe Drought was observed across the western portions of 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, March 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: 157834, 157835, 157836, 157837.