Dallas and Navarro Counties experienced moderate drought up until the last week of the month, when Severe drought conditions crept into portions of these two 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.
Dallas and Navarro Counties experienced moderate drought up until the last week of the month, when Severe drought conditions crept into portions of these two 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 Jun 24, 9:09 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1009 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013 .AVIATION... MODEL INDICATIONS ARE THAT MORNING STRATUS WILL MAKE IT TO ACT AND THE EASTERN METROPLEX BUT MISS DFW/AFW/FTW. TOUGH CALL LEAVING IT OUT...BUT WITH 925 WINDS OUT OF THE SSW THAT FORECAST SEEMS LIKELY. CLIMATOLOGY FOR JUNE STRATUS SAYS THAT EVEN IF IT ARRIVES IT BURNS OFF QUICKLY. 84 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 227 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013/ BREEZY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS LEE SURFACE TROUGHING PERSISTS TO OUR WEST AND THE BERMUDA HIGH NUDGES INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES. SUSTAINED WINDS IN THE 15-20 MPH WILL BE COMMON AND LIKELY CONTINUE DURING THE WARM OVERNIGHT HOURS. MEANWHILE THE 500MB RIDGE OVERHEAD WILL KEEP A LID ON ANY PRECIPITATION DESPITE THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE. THE ONLY EXCEPTION MAY BE THE FAR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES WHERE AN ISOLATED SEABREEZE SHOWER COULD OCCUR LATE AFTERNOON TODAY AND TOMORROW. THE RIDGE WILL FLATTEN OUT FOR A SHORT PERIOD ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CONUS ON TUESDAY...BEFORE INTENSIFYING OVER THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL STATES WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE NORTHEAST STATES. THE PATTERN WILL AMPLIFY THIS WEEKEND AS A STRONG SHORTWAVE DIVES SOUTH FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY...FURTHER DEEPENING THE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTRY. NORTH TEXAS WILL SUBSEQUENTLY BE PLACED IN BETWEEN RIDGE TO THE WEST AND TROUGH TO THE EAST...EFFECTIVELY ESTABLISHING NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ACROSS THE REGION. SO...THOUGH SUBSIDENCE FROM THE RIDGE WILL BRING ABOVE NORMAL AND POTENTIAL TRIPLE DIGIT HIGH TEMPERATURES LATE THIS WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND...THE RESULTING PATTERN COULD ALSO BRING SOME LIMITED RELIEF IF STORMS CAN ORGANIZE IN THE PLAINS AND PROPAGATE SOUTHEASTWARD TOWARDS NORTH TEXAS IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...LATE THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN FACT...MODEL PROJECTIONS INDICATE A COLD FRONT SUNDAY OR MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK...WHICH WOULD MAKE SENSE GIVEN THE INCESSANT NORTH-NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTRY. FOR NOW...WILL LEAVE POPS BELOW 20 PERCENT ACROSS THE REGION AND FORGO THE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIDGE. HOWEVER...IF FUTURE MODEL RUNS TREND WEAKER WITH THE RIDGE OR STRONGER WITH THE FRONT...RAIN CHANCES COULD BE ADDED IN LATER FORECASTS FOR LATE THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. EITHER WAY...AFTER AN ABOVE NORMAL ROUND OF TEMPERATURES DURING THE LAST WEEK OF JUNE IT LOOKS LIKE WE MAY BE BLESSED WITH SOME NEAR OR BELOW NORMAL TEMPS THE FIRST WEEK OF JULY. 30 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 75 97 77 98 77 / 0 0 5 0 0 WACO, TX 75 97 75 97 75 / 5 0 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 76 94 75 95 75 / 5 5 5 0 0 DENTON, TX 75 97 76 98 76 / 0 0 5 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 75 95 76 96 76 / 5 0 5 0 0 DALLAS, TX 77 96 77 97 78 / 5 0 5 0 0 TERRELL, TX 75 95 75 96 76 / 5 0 5 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 75 96 75 96 75 / 5 0 5 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 75 96 74 97 74 / 5 0 0 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 73 97 74 99 75 / 0 0 5 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 227 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-251130- 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- 227 PM CDT MON JUN 24 2013 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. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Dallas County experienced Moderate/D1 drought severity up until June 25th, when Severe/D2 conditions crept into the southwestern corner of the county.
Navarro County began June of 2013 with Moderate/D1 drought conditions in place county-wide. Due to below-normal rain during the month, conditions were downgraded to Severe/D2 across most of the county on June 25. These conditions continued through the end of the month.
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: 457997, 457998.