Most counties in the region received less than an inch of rain during the month and drought conditions continued to worsen. Many locations started the month in abnormally dry (D0) or moderate (D1) drought and ended the month in severe (D2) or extreme (D3) drought.
Every event with a place to put it; 15 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.
Most counties in the region received less than an inch of rain during the month and drought conditions continued to worsen. Many locations started the month in abnormally dry (D0) or moderate (D1) drought and ended the month in severe (D2) or extreme (D3) drought. In north Texas, the drought was the worst in the southern and eastern counties. At the end of the month, 40 of the 46 counties in north Texas were experiencing at least severe drought (D2) conditions and 26 counties had burn bans in effect.
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 Feb 28, 11:12 PM CST, 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1112 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011 .AVIATION... VFR THROUGH PERIOD. WINDS RETURN SOUTH TUESDAY MORNING. 84 && .UPDATE... EXCELLENT RADIATIONAL COOLING IS EXPECTED TONIGHT. MADE A MINOR CHANGE TO OVERNIGHT MINS IN SOME SPOTS...MAINLY TO DROP THEM OUT WEST WHERE DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE MID 20S AND TO RAISE THEM A LITTLE IN THE EAST WHERE DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE LOW 40S. A LIGHT FREEZE IS EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY FOR VALLEY AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES. HAVE ALSO INCLUDED A MENTION OF PATCHY FROST FOR MUCH OF THE AREA MEETING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF MIN TEMPS LOWER THAN 37 AND HIGH HUMIDITY VALUES. TR.92 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 228 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011/ WIND SPEEDS HAVE TAPERED OFF THIS AFTERNOON AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS AND WE HAVE CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING A LITTLE EARLY BECAUSE OF THIS. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN OVERNIGHT AND WITH LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES BY DAYBREAK... TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING FOR THE OUTLYING AREAS TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE METROPLEX. THE REST OF THE AREA WILL STILL EXPERIENCE LOWS IN THE 30S. AN UPPER HIGH WILL POSITION ITSELF IN NORTHERN MEXICO MID-WEEK AND WILL HAVE ENOUGH OF AN INFLUENCE TO KEEP NORTH TEXAS WEATHER DRY THROUGH FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE PLEASANT WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S AND LOWS IN THE 40S AND 50S FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL FLATTEN AND TRANSITION WESTWARD BY FRIDAY AND OUR NEXT UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL DROP DOWN FROM NORTHWEST BRINGING A CHANCE OF RAIN AND ANOTHER COLD FRONT TO THE REGION. THE FRIDAY NIGHT TIMING OF THE FRONTAL PASSAGE DOESNT BODE WELL FOR PRECIP CHANCES AS SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY WILL BE NON-EXISTENT DUE TO ANOTHER STRONG CAP IN PLACE. FORECAST SOUNDINGS DO SHOW A RATHER DEEP LAYER OF MOISTURE BENEATH THE CAP AND THINK THAT MOST OF THE QPF MODELS ARE OUTPUTTING ARE LIGHT SHOWERS STUCK UNDER THE CAP. HOWEVER...LAPSE RATES ABOVE THE CAP ARE RATHER STEEP AND WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION THUNDER IN THE GRIDS...BUT THE MOST PREDOMINATE WEATHER WILL BE RAIN/SHOWERS. 60 DEGREE HIGHS FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANOTHER NIGHT OF NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE METROPLEX SATURDAY NIGHT. LOOKING OUT EVEN FURTHER...ANOTHER SYSTEM/COLD FRONT IS PROGGED BY THE MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE ON DAY 9 WITH ANOTHER SHOT AT FREEZING TEMPERATURES. IT MAY STILL BE A BIT EARLY FOR ANY SPRING VEGETABLE PLANTING FOR SOME AREAS. 85/NH && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 37 71 45 72 47 / 0 0 0 0 0 WACO, TX 34 69 41 72 47 / 0 0 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 33 67 39 71 44 / 0 0 0 0 0 DENTON, TX 31 70 42 74 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 31 69 40 71 42 / 0 0 0 0 0 DALLAS, TX 38 70 46 72 49 / 0 0 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 35 69 41 71 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 36 71 43 71 47 / 0 0 0 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 34 71 42 74 46 / 0 0 0 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 29 73 42 78 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 220 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011 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- 220 PM CST MON FEB 28 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST HALF OF NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS FAR EASTERN NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 05/
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
15 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in moderate drought (D1). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in severe drought (D2).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in severe drought (D2).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in severe drought (D2).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started and ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month in severe drought (D2). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in extreme drought (D3).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 2011
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: 288416, 288417, 288418, 288419, 288420, 288421, 288433, 288437, 288438, 288441, 288442, 288443, 288444, 288446, 288453.