As severe storms in southwest Oklahoma and northwest Texas moved into North Texas, they weakened. However, one storm in Cooke County produced gusty winds that knocked a weakened tree onto a home.
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As severe storms in southwest Oklahoma and northwest Texas moved into North Texas, they weakened. However, one storm in Cooke County produced gusty winds that knocked a weakened tree onto a home.
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 Apr 9, 10:58 PM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1158 PM CDT MON APR 9 2012 .AVIATION... /06Z TAFS/ NO MAJOR CHANGES NEEDED TO ONGOING TAFS. WITH UPSTREAM CONVECTION STRUGGLING...WILL LIKELY DELAY OR REMOVE VCSH. 25 .../PREVIOUS AVIATION DISCUSSION/... /03Z TAFS/ AMENDMENTS...REPLACED VCTS WITH VCSH. INTRODUCED TEMPO IFR VSBY. CONVECTION APPROACHING NW ZONES WITH HEALTHY LIGHTNING...BUT MULTICELL CLUSTERS HAVE FAILED TO ORGANIZE INTO AN MCS. FWS VWP SHOWING 25KTS OF INFLOW AT 1-5KFT AGL...BUT MOISTURE IS RATHER SHALLOW. EXPECT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY UPSTREAM TO BE ON A DOWNWARD TREND...LARGELY DISSIPATING BEFORE REACHING METRO TAF SITES. WINDS ARE NEARLY CALM...WITH BR ALREADY DEVELOPING. UNLESS CONVECTIVE DEBRIS DISRUPTS THIS PROCESS...EXPECT VSBY TO FALL INTO IFR CATEGORY DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS...POTENTIALLY LIFR OUTSIDE OF URBAN AIRPORTS. 25 && .UPDATE... A FEW SIGNIFICANT CHANGES ARE IN ORDER FOR THIS UPDATE. THE FIRST CHANGE WILL BE TO DECREASE POPS OVERNIGHT AS CONVECTION NORTH/NORTHWEST OF THE REGION HAS REALLY HAD SOME ORGANIZATION PROBLEMS THIS EVENING AND LACKS ANY REAL COLD POOL. STILL EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION OVERNIGHT BUT COVERAGE AND SEVERE POTENTIAL IS DECREASING. SECOND CHANGE WILL BE TO ADD THE MENTION OF PATCHY FOG TO ALL ZONES OVERNIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING. WE DO NOT FEEL THE FOG WILL BE AS WIDESPREAD OR AS DENSE AS THIS MORNING DUE TO SLIGHTLY STRONGER WINDS AND MORE ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER. NO OTHER MAJOR CHANGES WITH THIS UPDATE. 79 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 337 PM CDT MON APR 9 2012/ FOGGY CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THIS MORNING...GIVING WAY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY AND MILD CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE REMAINS SETTLED JUST EAST OF NORTH TEXAS. SOUTHEAST WINDS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO INCREASE DUE TO THE LAX PRESSURE GRADIENT...WHICH HAS IN TURN ALLOWED THE LOW CLOUDS AND FOG TO LINGER INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. HIGH TEMPS MAY HAVE SUFFERED BY A COUPLE OF DEGREES DUE TO THE PERSISTENT LOW CLOUD COVER...BUT SHOULD STILL REACH THE 70S BY LATE AFTERNOON. ALL EYES WILL THEN BECOME PEELED NORTHWEST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING...WHERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY INITIATING NEAR THE VICINITY OF A WEAK SURFACE LOW AND TRIPLE POINT OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. A VORT MAX JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE ROTATING AROUND THE EAST SIDE OF A DIRTY RIDGE OVER THE PRIMED AREA DURING PEAK HEATING...ALLOWING FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT TO BE OPTIMIZED DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT CELLS WILL EVENTUALLY ORGANIZE INTO A LINE AS THEY APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST...ALLOWING FOR MAINLY A HAIL AND STRAIGHT LINE WIND THREAT AS THE COMPLEX BARRELS SOUTHEASTWARD INTO THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES AROUND MIDNIGHT. ACTIVITY SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN AS IT APPROACHES THE I 35 CORRIDOR AND BECOMES INFLUENCED BY THE SUBSIDENT ZONE OF THE UPPER RIDGE AND HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF BEING AFFECTED BY THE EML MENTIONED IN THE MORNING DISCUSSION. THAT SAID...CHANCES FOR STORMS WILL BE HIGHEST OVER THE NORTHWESTERN MOST COUNTIES TONIGHT WITH LOWERING CHANCES THE FURTHER SOUTHEAST YOU GET. TUESDAY LOOKS FAIRLY CALM UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON...WHEN THE PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER RIDGE BECOMES MESSY AND ACTIVE AGAIN. IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BE STUCK FOR SEVERAL DAYS OF SUMMER-LIKE CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN AN ARC AROUND THE REGION WITH THE REMNANTS OF THUNDERSTORMS GIVING US AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR RAIN EACH DAY FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. THE PATTERN WILL FINALLY UNDERGO A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE THIS WEEKEND AS A LARGE SCALE UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND SHOWS SIGNS OF CREATING A WIDESPREAD SIGNIFICANT RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM EVENT ABOUT A WEEK FROM NOW. 30 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 65 79 64 76 61 / 30 20 20 20 30 WACO, TX 62 80 62 79 64 / 10 10 10 20 20 PARIS, TX 62 78 59 69 54 / 20 20 30 20 20 DENTON, TX 63 78 62 74 59 / 40 20 20 20 30 MCKINNEY, TX 62 78 62 74 58 / 30 20 20 20 30 DALLAS, TX 65 80 64 77 62 / 30 20 20 20 30 TERRELL, TX 63 78 63 75 59 / 20 20 20 20 20 CORSICANA, TX 64 80 63 79 61 / 10 20 10 20 20 TEMPLE, TX 62 79 62 79 65 / 10 10 10 10 20 MINERAL WELLS, TX 62 79 61 77 63 / 40 10 20 20 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 25/79
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1132 PM CDT MON APR 9 2012 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101100- 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- 1132 PM CDT MON APR 9 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF I-20...AND WEST OF I-35. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENINGS. THERE WILL BE GREATER AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEKEND. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 25
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1237 AM CDT TUE APR 10 2012
TXZ092-100600-
COOKE TX-
1237 AM CDT TUE APR 10 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
COOKE COUNTY
AT 1237 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GAINESVILLE...LINDSAY AND
MUENSTER.
NICKEL-SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
LAT...LON 3364 9694 3342 9694 3344 9748 3363 9747
3376 9733
TIME...MOT...LOC 0537Z 307DEG 18KT 3364 9730
DUNNThe Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:54 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A weakened tree was knocked down onto a house in Gainesville from sub-severe winds associated with a thunderstorm. The tree also knocked down power lines near the house. The local automated weather station (KGLE) reported a 41 mph wind gust at the same time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2012
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