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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.
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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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 3, 9:42 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1042 AM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIES ACROSS SW EXTENDING ENE TO JUST SOUTH OF HIGH ISLAND. IMPULSES IN THE WSW FLOW ALOFT ALREADY PRODUCING AREAS OF SHRA/TSRA OVER CENTRAL TX WHICH ARE APPROACHING OUR WESTERN ZONES. BANDS OF CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS NW GULF INCLUDING OVER COASTAL ZONES...MOVING SLOWLY ENE. AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED WE CAN EXPECT INCREASING POPS AREA WIDE LATE TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. WE ADJUSTED 1ST PERIOD POPS MAINLY FOR REST OF THIS MORNING INCREASING CHANCES WESTERN ZONES AND COASTAL WATERS. OTHERWISE REST OF ZFPHGX ON TRACK 37 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 350 AM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009/ AVIATION... CIGS AND VSBY WILL LIKELY REMAIN NEAR THE VFR/MVFR THRESHOLD TODAY WITH A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE PCPN APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHEAST. ANTICIPATE WIDESREAD LIGHT RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT...CIGS SHOULD DROP TOO IFR/LIFR LEVELS AT ALL TAF SITES. LIGHT NORTHEAST WINDS SHOULD VEER AROUND TO THE SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. 44 PREV DISCUSSION.../ISSUED 350 AM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009/ AT 08Z...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A DEVELOPING WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED ALONG A LAREDO TO PORT O CONNOR LINE...EXTENDING EASTWARD OVER THE GULF. THE WARM FRONT WILL TREK SLOWLY NORTH TODAY AND SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SATELLITE DERIVED PW SHOWS THAT VALUES ARE ALREADY INCREASING ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS. LOW LEVEL DRY AIR IS ENTRENCHED OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS AND IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO SATURATE SO HAVE TRIMMED POPS BACK THIS MORNING TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. UPPER LEVEL WINDS BECOME WEAKLY DIVERGENT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL TRAVERSE THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. RAIN CHANCES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE DUE TO THE DISTURBANCES AND DEEP MOISTURE IN PLACE. ON SUNDAY...MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT WIDESPREAD RAINFALL WILL OCCUR. UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE IS WEAK IN THE MORNING BUT INCREASES AGAIN DURING THE AFTERNOON. MOISTURE LEVELS REMAIN VERY HIGH WITH PW VALUES BETWEEN 2.2 AND 2.4 INCHES. NEITHER THE GFS OR THE NAM SHOW A LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY IN PLACE BUT THE ECMWF KEEPS A NE-SW BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS THE REGION FROM LFK TO UTS TO 11R. IF A BOUNDARY DEVELOPS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. HAVE TRENDED HIGHER POPS NORTH DUE TO STRONGER DYNAMIC FORCING WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER POPS SOUTH. CONFIDENCE IS NOT HIGH ON SUNDAY AS THE BEST DYNAMICS SHIFT NORTH AND FEEL FOCUS FOR RAIN WILL SHIFT NORTH AS WELL. NEXT WEEK LOOKS WARM AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING BUILDS INTO THE REGION FROM THE EAST. MOISTURE TRAPPED BENEATH THE RIDGE WILL MAKE IT FEEL RATHER OPPRESSIVE. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL AGAIN TOP THE 100 DEGREE MARK AT TIMES MON AND TUES. BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP WILL BE INLAND ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER RIDGE. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY BUT WILL STALL OVER THE EXTREME NORTH. THE FRONT MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. GFS AND ECMWF DIFFER A BIT WITH THE TIMING OF A SECOND MORE POTENT FRONT NEXT WEEKEND. PREFER THE SLOWER ECMWF WHICH BRINGS THE FRONT THROUGH NEXT SATURDAY. 43 PREV MARINE.../ISSUED 350 AM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009/ AN ONSHORE FLOW SHOULD RETURN SATURDAY MORNING AS AN OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLOWLY MOVES INLAND FROM THE COASTAL WATERS. THE ONSHORE FETCH IS FORECAST TO REMAIN OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THROUGH MOST OF NEXT WEEK. WIND SPEEDS COULD REACH SCEC CRITERIA DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. 44 && .HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 241 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009 TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-041200- AUSTIN-BRAZORIA-BRAZOS-BURLESON-CHAMBERS-COLORADO-FORT BEND- GALVESTON-GRIMES-HARRIS-HOUSTON-JACKSON-LIBERTY-MADISON-MATAGORDA- MONTGOMERY-POLK-SAN JACINTO-TRINITY-WALKER-WALLER-WASHINGTON- WHARTON- 241 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A DEVELOPING WARM FRONT AND A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL SET THE STAGE FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BEST CHANCE OF RAIN EARLY WILL BE OVER THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE REGION...SPREADING AREAWIDE DURING THE EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BY SUNDAY MORNING WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OVER THE NORTH AND AROUND AN INCH NEAR THE COAST. DUE TO THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT...THERE WILL BE SOME POCKETS OF HEAVIER RAIN. FORECAST SOUNDINGS ALSO SHOW LOW LEVEL SHEAR IN PLACE. FUNNEL CLOUDS OR AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO...SUNDAY DEEP MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ON SUNDAY. THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH SO IT APPEARS THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL BE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST IN THE WARM HUMID AIR BEHIND THE WARM FRONT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER THE NORTH WITH ISOLATED 2 TO 4 INCH TOTALS IF TRAINING DEVELOPS ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN A HALF AND ONE INCH NEAR THE COAST. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
225 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009
TXZ226-235-032015-
JACKSON-WHARTON-
225 PM CDT SAT OCT 3 2009
...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...
AT 222 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTY...MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MORALES...CORDELE AND
GANADO.
SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE OR NON-CONVERTABLE AUTOMOBILE
UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 2925 9667 2924 9665 2925 9662 2923 9636
2895 9651 2912 9685
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 292DEG 11KT 2917 9671The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 154 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:10 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and four power poles were blown down between Cordele and Lake Texana near FM 530.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2009Warnings in Texas, October 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: 192021.