Strong thunderstorms produced wind damage over Montague and Collin Counties.
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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.
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Strong thunderstorms produced wind damage over Montague and Collin Counties.
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 Aug 23, 1:20 PM CST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 220 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 .DISCUSSION... WE CONTINUE TO WATCH ISOLATED DIURNAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF NORTH TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WEAK FORCING IS COINCIDING WITH AN UNCAPPED AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...AS A SUBTLE SHORTWAVE ROTATES AROUND THE SOUTHEAST PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER HIGH CENTERED OVER KANSAS. SURFACE MECHANISMS ARE ABSENT. 20 PERCENT POPS ACROSS THE NORTH VERSUS 10 PERCENT SOUTH REMAIN REASONABLE PER THE WEAK UVV/S ASSOCIATED WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED SHORTWAVE MOVING OVER THE RED VALLEY. THE MAJORITY OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD END AFTER DARK...THOUGH LATENT HEAT PROCESSES WITH NEAR 1.75-2.00 INCH PWATS COULD STILL LEND TO VERY ISOLATED SHOWERS OVERNIGHT AND ALSO BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH DIURNAL ACTIVITY. WITH THE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER ALOFT REMAINING AROUND 591-592DM ON SATURDAY...A SIMILAR SCENARIO REGARDING CONVECTIVE TRENDS IS EXPECTED AGAIN. IT DOES APPEAR SOME DRIER LOWER-MID LEVEL AIR WILL SLOWLY ENTRAIN ACROSS THE RED RIVER LATE IN THE DAY AND CONFINING ISOLATED CONVECTION ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE I-20/I-30 CORRIDORS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. INCREASING SUBSIDENCE AND DRIER MID LEVEL AIR WILL CONTINUE EXPANDING SOUTH SUNDAY-TUESDAY. THE UPPER HIGH WILL INTENSIFY TO AROUND 596DM WHILE EXPANDING EXPANDS EAST OVER THE OZARKS AND MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. DIURNAL AND ISOLATED SHOWERS/ STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SUPPRESSED TO OUR CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES. FROM MID WEEK THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND...THE UPPER HIGH EXPANDS FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND INTO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND CENTRAL GULF COAST. THIS WILL LIKELY SHUT OFF DEEPER LOW LEVEL FLOW OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO ACROSS THE UPPER TEXAS COAST AND LIKELY SHUT DOWN EVEN ISOLATED RAIN CHANCES. A BULK OF THE BETTER ONSHORE FLOW WILL BE CONFINED FROM THE TEXAS COASTAL BEND INTO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...TOO FAR SOUTH TO HAVE ANY IMPACT ACROSS OUR CWA. BOTH HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN NEAR SEASONAL CLIMATOLOGY WITH HIGHS IN THE MID-UPPER 90S AND LOWS IN THE 70S...EXCEPT NEAR 80 ACROSS THE IMMEDIATE URBAN AREAS. THE GULF OF MEXICO SHOULD REMAIN RELATIVELY QUIET THIS COMING WEEK WITH REGARD TO TROPICAL SYSTEMS. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 79 98 78 96 79 / 10 10 10 10 10 WACO, TX 76 98 75 96 75 / 10 20 10 20 10 PARIS, TX 74 96 73 96 73 / 10 10 10 10 10 DENTON, TX 75 98 74 96 75 / 20 10 10 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 75 97 75 97 75 / 10 10 10 10 10 DALLAS, TX 80 99 79 97 79 / 10 10 10 10 10 TERRELL, TX 76 98 75 97 76 / 10 10 10 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 76 97 75 96 75 / 10 20 10 20 10 TEMPLE, TX 74 97 73 94 73 / 10 20 10 30 20 MINERAL WELLS, TX 74 96 73 94 74 / 20 10 10 10 10 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 204 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-241115- 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- 204 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY ANY STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
422 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013
TXZ091-101-232200-
JACK TX-MONTAGUE TX-
422 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL JACK COUNTY
SOUTHWESTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWIE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
20 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3357 9796 3353 9784 3344 9786 3346 9819
3347 9819 3347 9799 3358 9798 3358 9796
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 116DEG 18KT 3350 9791The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Emergency management reported that winds snapped 2 power poles near Lake Amon Carter.
Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a barn in Anna, TX, which struck a man and woman. The woman died the same day and her husband died from his injuries the next day.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind, Collin | 2013-08-23 | Female | Permanent Structure | Direct | |
| Thunderstorm Wind, Collin | 2013-08-24 | Male | Permanent Structure | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2013
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: 474622, 474924.