A warm front which extended from western to southern counties of North Texas served as focus for thunderstorm development Wednesday afternoon. One storm produced both large hail and wind damage over Stephens County.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
A warm front which extended from western to southern counties of North Texas served as focus for thunderstorm development Wednesday afternoon. One storm produced both large hail and wind damage over Stephens County.
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 Jun 19, 11:49 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1249 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013 .AVIATION... CONCERNS...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE DFW METROPLEX AND WACO VICINITIES. A WARM FRONT THAT EXTENDED ALONG A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF KBKD /BRECKENRIDGE/ TO NEAR KACT /WACO/ TO 30 MILES NE OF KCLL /COLLEGE STATION/ WILL LIFT SLOWLY NORTHWARD THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS BOUNDARY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE AS SUNSET APPROACHES. THE CHANCES AT THE INDIVIDUAL AIRPORTS IS LOW...SO HAVE JUST PLACED VCTS FOR THE 20Z TO 00Z PERIOD AT KACT /WACO/ AND LEFT OUT A MENTION OF VCTS IN THE METROPLEX TAFS FOR NOW. UPDATES FOR THE DFW METROPLEX TAFS MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS TOWERING CUMULUS IS ALREADY DEVELOPING. SOUTHEAST WINDS OF 5 TO 10 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BECOME SOUTHERLY AT AROUND 15 KNOTS BY 16Z THURSDAY. 58 && .UPDATE... A WEAK...DIFFUSED FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS LIFTED OVER THE WESTERN CWA AND NOW EXTENDS FROM NEAR BRECKENRIDGE SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH OF PALESTINE. EXPECT THIS BOUNDARY TO AID IN FOCUSING DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT. THE MCS OFF TO THE NORTHWEST HAD HELD TOGETHER FAIRLY WELL THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY ON ITS SOUTHERN END. THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN CWA COUNTIES OF YOUNG AND STEPHENS AS EARLY AS 2 PM. ALTHOUGH OUR ATMOSPHERE IS UNSTABLE WITH GOOD MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND CAPE VALUES GENERALLY BETTER THAN 1800 J/KG...THE MCS WILL BE MOVING INTO AN ENVIRONMENT OF DECREASING BULK SHEAR WHICH WILL LIMIT THE POTENTIAL FOR ROTATING UPDRAFTS. CAPE VALUES ALONE SUGGEST SOME MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND A POTENTIAL FOR 40-50 MPH DOWNBURST WINDS. 75 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 318 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013/ THE ONLY MAJOR FORECASTING CHALLENGE WITH THIS PACKAGE WILL BE PATCHY FOG IN THE EASTERN ZONES THIS MORNING AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TODAY. LIGHT WIND AND DAMP GROUND ACROSS EAST TEXAS AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS WILL RESULT IN PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING TODAY. IT APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE DENSE FOG SHOULD BE IN EAST TEXAS BUT A FEW NORTH TEXAS LOCATIONS MAY BRIEFLY FALL TO 1/2 MILE VISIBILITY. BY 11 AM...ANY FOG THAT DID DEVELOP WILL HAVE DISSIPATED. A COMPLEX OF STORMS...CURRENTLY ACROSS WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND THE PANHANDLE...WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. CLOUD TOPS IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COMPLEX HAVE BEEN WARMING OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND THIS TREND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE. THE HRRR SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST REASONABLE SOLUTION OF ALL MODELS BASED ON RADAR TRENDS OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS SO WILL FOLLOW IT FAIRLY CLOSELY. THEREFORE...EXPECT MOST OF THE WEST TEXAS ACTIVITY TO DISSIPATE BEFORE REACHING THE NORTHWEST ZONES AROUND MID MORNING...BUT WILL LEAVE 20 POPS IN TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY SHOWER OR STORM THAT MANAGES TO HOLD TOGETHER. BY THIS AFTERNOON...A FEW SHOWERS OR STORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE 90S AND SOME LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR LIFT. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP SHOULD BE DISORGANIZED PULSE STORMS DUE TO THE WEAK SHEARED AND WEAK FLOW ENVIRONMENT EXPECTED. ANY SHOWERS OR STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WILL DISSIPATE WITH THE LOSS OF SURFACE HEATING AND INCREASING LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE FROM A BUILDING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL BECOME THE DOMINANT WEATHER FEATURE ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE RIDGE WILL NEVER BECOME EXTREMELY STRONG AND AS A RESULT AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES SHOULD NOT BE TOO MUCH WARMER THAN SEASONAL NORMALS. EXPECT AFTERNOON HIGHS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK GENERALLY IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S AND LOWS MOSTLY IN THE 70S. 79 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 93 74 94 75 96 / 20 10 0 0 0 WACO, TX 94 72 94 73 95 / 20 10 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 89 70 92 71 94 / 20 10 5 0 5 DENTON, TX 92 71 94 72 96 / 20 10 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 90 69 93 70 94 / 20 10 5 0 0 DALLAS, TX 93 75 94 76 95 / 20 10 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 92 71 93 72 94 / 20 10 5 0 5 CORSICANA, TX 93 72 93 73 94 / 30 10 5 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 93 71 93 72 94 / 20 10 0 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 93 70 94 71 96 / 30 5 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 58/75
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1124 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201145- 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- 1124 AM CDT WED JUN 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH SUNSET. BESIDES CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN SOME FLASH FLOODING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER WILL ACCOMPANY A FEW OF THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED BETWEEN 3 PM AND SUNSET.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
218 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
TXZ115-191945-
STEPHENS TX-
218 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
STEPHENS COUNTY
AT 215 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRECKENRIDGE...BETWEEN
CRYSTAL FALLS AND IVAN. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY BUT IS
LIKELY TO DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
IN ADDITION...A SEVERE STORM NOW IN SOUTHERN THROCKMORTON COUNTY IS
DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AND MAY IMPACT NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF STEPHENS
COUNTY BEFORE 3 PM.
LAT...LON 3292 9910 3296 9909 3296 9875 3295 9857
3251 9858 3252 9910
TIME...MOT...LOC 1915Z 268DEG 2KT 3285 9879
25SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
224 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
TXZ132-191945-
SOMERVELL TX-
224 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
SOMERVELL COUNTY
AT 222 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK...MOVING SOUTH
AT 5 MPH.
GLEN ROSE AND GLASS MAY BE IMPACTED BY THIS STORM...WHICH WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF-INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
LAT...LON 3232 9779 3231 9761 3221 9761 3220 9762
3221 9763 3209 9786 3210 9788 3223 9795
3224 9795
TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 008DEG 3KT 3223 9781
25SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
250 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
TXZ116-192015-
PALO PINTO TX-
250 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
PALO PINTO COUNTY
AT 249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE...MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
LAT...LON 3295 9857 3295 9844 3269 9807 3252 9807
3251 9857
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 029DEG 9KT 3278 9852
25The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:53 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Golf ball sized hail was reported on Highway 67 just south of Ivan.
A tree was uprooted 6 miles south of Breckenridge.
The Erath County Sheriff's Office reported large trees blown down on Highway 281, north of Morgan Mill.
The Erath County Sheriff's Department reported trees blown down off of Timbercreek Drive, approximately 4 miles northeast of Stephenville.
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, June 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: 451716, 451717, 451718, 463353, 463355.