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; 13 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 Mar 24, 8:41 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 941 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 .UPDATE... A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO MUCH DRIER AIR. WILL KEEP SOME LOW POPS IN THE WEST AS SOME REMNANT PRECIP MAY MAKE IT INTO THE CWA. WILL REMOVE THE ISOLATED PRECIP ALONG THE RED RIVER OVERNIGHT DUE TO LIMITED MOISTURE. THE ONLY OTHER CHANGES WILL BE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO THE HOURLY TEMP/DEW POINT GRIDS. 79 && .AVIATION... A WARM FRONT OVER WEST TEXAS STRETCHES INTO SOUTHEAST TX AND WILL MOVE NORTH TONIGHT ALLOWING MOISTURE TO SPREAD NORTH TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY. EXPECT MVFR CEILINGS AROUND 06Z BECOMING IFR AROUND 11Z BASED ON LATEST RUC/NAM FORECAST SOUNDINGS. IFR/MVFR CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR AFTER 17Z-18Z. SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP OVER WEST TEXAS TONIGHT BUT WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE DFW AND ACT TRACONS. EXPECT SURFACE WIND TO BE EAST-SOUTHEAST 8-12KT TONIGHT VEERING TO THE SOUTH TOWARD SUNRISE FRIDAY AND INCREASING IN SPEED TO 15KT ON FRIDAY. 50 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 248 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011/ WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE HEIGHTENED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH 7 PM OR NEAR SUNSET THIS EVENING...AS GUSTY EAST-SOUTHEAST WINDS 15 TO 25 PH COMBINE WITH WARM TEMPERATURES AND A DRY AIRMASS TO RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. MOISTURE ARRIVING AND COOLING THIS EVENING WILL HELP IMPROVE CONDITIONS AFTER NIGHTFALL. INITIAL SHORTWAVE RIPPLING ACROSS UT/CO BORDER THIS AFTERNOON WILL EXIST ACROSS THE OK PANHANDLE/KS/NRN OK OVERNIGHT. WARM FRONT IS CURRENTLY SETTLE ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND LIKELY WILL NOT PROGRESS NORTH AWAY FROM THE CWA UNTIL MID-LATE EVENING. MEANWHILE ...A DRYLINE CONTINUES TO DEEPEN ALONG THE TX/NM BORDER WITH A SLIGHT RISK OVER THE PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS/PERMIAN BASIN FOR TONIGHT...850-700 MB LAYER MOISTURE ADVECTION CONTINUES IN ERNEST ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL TEXAS IN WAKE OF 850 MB HIGH NOW SHIFTING EAST ACROSS THE ARK-LA-TX...WITH STEEP LAPSE RATES ABOVE 650 MB. WRF MODEL AND RUC CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE DRYLINE AND EVENTUALLY THE WARM FRONT LATER TONIGHT...WITH A POSSIBLE DRIFT ACROSS FAR WESTERN COUNTIES CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT...BEFORE STEERING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND WELL UP INTO OK/AR AS OUR FIRST SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE MOVES QUICKLY EAST TOWARD THE OZARKS AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BY DAYBREAK FRIDAY. CAN'T RULE OUT A STRONG STORM WITH SOME SMALL HAIL AND EVEN GUSTY WINDS WITH ISOLATED OVERNIGHT ACTIVITY ALONG THE RED RIVER VALLEY...THOUGH CONFIDENCE IS AVERAGE AT BEST. DRYLINE RETREATS BACK WEST OVERNIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY...BUT WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO WESTERN NORTH TEXAS LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH YET ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE MOVE THROUGH FAST ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL/SOUTHERN PLAINS. NOSE OF ELEVATED WAA WILL OCCUR ONCE AGAIN ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY INTO NORTHEAST COUNTIES AND WILL MAINTAIN A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HAIL POTENTIAL FRIDAY NIGHT IN THAT VICINITY ONCE AGAIN...AS STRONGER CAP TO THE SOUTH OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS KEEPS IT DRY...BREEZY AND WARM. A SLIGHT RISK HAS BEEN POSTED FOR LATE FRIDAY/FRI NIGHT FOR FAR NORTHEAST PARTS OF NORTH TX. SURFACE LOW EJECTS EAST ACROSS OKLAHOMA ON SATURDAY FOR OUR WARMEST DAY YET WITH ANOTHER DRYLINE SURGE AND TEMPERATURES IN THE MUCH DRIER AIR TO OVER WESTERN NORTH TEXAS ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO LIKELY SURGE INTO THE LOWER 90S...BEFORE A COLD FRONT ARRIVE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH MUCH COOLER CONDITIONS. PER COLLABORATION WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES...WE FOLLOW THE MORE ROBUST/COOLER NAM/ECMWF MODELS WITH THE BETTER HANDLING OF SHALLOW AND COOL AIRMASS SURGES. BEST MOISTURE TRANSPORT WITH VEERING LOW LEVEL FLOW OUT OF CENTRAL AND SW TX WILL BE ACROSS AREAS MAINLY EAST OF I-35 WHERE MOISTURE WILL BE DEEP ENOUGH TO SUSTAIN SOME WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONT BY SATURDAY EVENING. NOT WIDESPREAD RAIN LIKE WE NEED ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS...BUT BETTER THAN NOTHING. YET ANOTHER FAST MOVING UPPER DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS OK/KS/N TX LATE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ABOVE THE COOLER LOW LEVEL AIR...SO A FEW ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN BUT NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING OVERLY STRONG OR WIDESPREAD IN SUCH FAST... CONFLUENT FLOW ALOFT. A GRADUAL WARM UP WILL OCCUR EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE FAST-CHANGING ...NORMAL EARLY SPRING PATTERN CONTINUES WITH DRY WEATHER. MODELS REALLY BEGIN TO DIVERGE ON SOLUTIONS THROUGH THE WEEK NEXT WEEK... WITH AT LEAST ANOTHER PACIFIC TYPE COLD FRONT ARRIVE MID WEEK FOR ANOTHER SLIGHT COOL DOWN. IT DOESN'T APPEAR DROUGHT CONDITIONS AND SUBSEQUENT FIRE WEATHER IS GOING TO IMPROVE THE NEXT 7-10 DAYS WITH OFF/ON HEIGHTENED TO CRITICAL DAYS...ESPECIALLY BEHIND ANY DRYLINE SURGES. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 62 83 65 89 49 / 5 5 10 5 10 WACO, TX 63 82 65 90 50 / 5 5 5 5 10 PARIS, TX 50 78 61 81 46 / 5 10 30 10 20 DENTON, TX 58 85 61 86 45 / 5 5 10 5 10 MCKINNEY, TX 56 80 61 85 45 / 5 10 20 5 10 DALLAS, TX 63 83 66 87 48 / 5 5 10 5 10 TERRELL, TX 57 80 64 82 49 / 5 10 10 5 20 CORSICANA, TX 60 81 64 85 56 / 5 10 10 5 20 TEMPLE, TX 62 80 63 87 50 / 5 5 5 5 20 MINERAL WELLS, TX 59 87 60 90 42 / 10 5 10 5 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 92/79
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 647 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-251215- 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- 647 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM EASTLAND TO BOWIE TO PARIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR AREAS NORTHEAST OF THE METROPLEX FRIDAY EVENING. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 IN NORTH TEXAS. LOW CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
13 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
According to the US Drought Monitor, the county started the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). 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 the month with only abnormally dry conditions (D0). With little to no rainfall, drought conditions worsened and the county ended the month in severe drought (D2).
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: 294087, 294088, 294089, 294090, 294091, 294092, 294093, 294094, 294095, 294096, 294097, 294098, 294099.