Heavy rainfall caused an apartment ceiling to collapse.
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Heavy rainfall caused an apartment ceiling to collapse.
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 Sep 17, 2:05 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 305 PM CDT THU SEP 17 2009 .DISCUSSION... THE SFC-700MB CIRCULATION PRESENTLY NEAR NACOGDOCHES WITH SHOWERS/DRIZZLE SPREADING SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE CWA. EXPECTING THE PRECIPITATION TO CONTINUE THIS EVENING THEN DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT AS IT CONCENTRATES CLOSER TO THE CORE. BEST THETA-E AIR REMAINS ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND EASTWARD INTO NORTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN ARKANSAS NEXT 24 HOURS. WILL LINGER LOW CHANCE POPS...MAINLY EASTERN CWA...THROUGH FRIDAY THEN END WEST TO EAST AS WE GO INTO SATURDAY. THE UPPER LOW WILL WEAKEN WITH TIME AS IT MOVES FURTHER NORTHEAST FROM THE AREA. IT WILL EVENTUALLY MERGE WITH A BROAD LOW PRESSURE AREA SPREADING INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS WEEKEND. WITH THIS BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN PLACE OVER THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS...THE STAGE IS SET FOR ANOTHER UNIQUE MIDDLE/UPPER LEVEL CYCLONE. FOR THIS FORECAST WE/LL USE THE GFS...NEWEST ECMWF IS OUT OF STEP WITH CURRENT GFS AND PREVIOUS ECMWF RUNS. VERY STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGING OCCURS ALONG THE WEST COAST SUNDAY. THIS OPENS THE PLAINS UP TO LONGWAVE TROUGHING AS A VIGOROUS BRITISH COLUMBIA SHORTWAVE DIVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE ROCKIES. OF INTEREST IS THE FORMATION OF AN INTENSE CLOSED LOW OVER WESTERN KANSAS MONDAY NIGHT. CLIMATOLOGICALLY...THIS IS A RARE EVENT AND MAY NOT BE HANDLE VERY WELL BY THE MODELS. THERE IS GOOD CONFIDENCE THAT IT WILL DEVELOP...BUT LOTS OF UNCERTAINTY AS TO WHERE IT WILL TRACK AND HOW LONG IT WILL BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH GOOD NORTHERLY FLOW ON ITS BACK SIDE IT WILL BE ABLE TO SLING A COLD FRONT DOWN INTO TEXAS. STRONG FRONTOGENESIS AND LARGE SCALE FORCING SHOULD BRING STRONG TO SEVERE CONVECTION BACK TO NORTH TEXAS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. IF THIS SYSTEMS ACTS AS ADVERTISED...THE FRONT AND CONVECTION WILL CLEAR THE CWA BY EARLY WEDNESDAY WITH NICE WEATHER AND COOLER TEMPERATURES DURING THE DAY AND OVERNIGHT. 75 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 66 82 69 84 67 / 50 30 20 10 10 WACO, TX 68 85 68 86 66 / 40 20 10 10 10 PARIS, TX 65 78 67 83 64 / 60 30 20 20 10 DENTON, TX 65 82 67 83 65 / 40 30 20 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 65 82 67 83 64 / 50 30 20 10 10 DALLAS, TX 67 83 69 84 66 / 50 30 20 10 10 TERRELL, TX 66 82 68 83 64 / 50 30 20 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 66 82 69 84 65 / 50 30 20 10 10 TEMPLE, TX 66 83 67 86 66 / 30 20 10 10 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 79/75
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 332 PM CDT THU SEP 17 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-181200- 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- 332 PM CDT THU SEP 17 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. LIGHTNING STRIKES AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY AS A STRONG UPPER DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT MOVE INTO THE REGION. A FEW STRONG STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain during the day, in combination with rainfall from earlier in the week, was thought to be the reason for the collapse of a ceiling at an apartment complex on the 2900 block of Robin Road. One man was taken to the hospital with a slight laceration on his forehead.
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