Isolated thunderstorms developed across the Texas Hill Country. Isolated wind gusts to around 60 mph were recorded.
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Isolated thunderstorms developed across the Texas Hill Country. Isolated wind gusts to around 60 mph were recorded.
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 19, 2:26 PM CST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 326 PM CDT TUE MAR 19 2013 .DISCUSSION... CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY DEPICTS A SHORTWAVE OVER NEW MEXICO MOVING QUICKLY SOUTHEAST TOWARDS WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FEATURE WILL RACE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT...GENERATING SUFFICIENT LIFT FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...A BOUNDARY OVER SOUTH- CENTRAL TEXAS CONTINUES TO LIFT NORTH...AND WILL BE THE MAIN FOCUS FOR POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS THIS EVENING. ACTIVITY NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY WILL BE ELEVATED IN NATURE...WITH HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY STORM THAT BECOMES SEVERE. CLOSER TO THE FRONT...STRONG SHEAR COMBINED WITH DECENT INSTABILITY WILL LEAD TO AN INCREASING DAMAGING WIND THREAT ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL. THE LATEST HIGH RESOLUTION GUIDANCE POINTS AT SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BEGINNING OUT WEST OVER LOCATIONS FROM CISCO TO LAMPASAS AROUND 6 PM. ACTIVITY WILL SPREAD EAST-SOUTHEAST...AFFECTING AREAS NEAR TEMPLE AND WACO AROUND 9 PM...THEN NEAR CENTERVILLE SHORTLY THEREAFTER. STORMS WOULD THEN EXIT OUR CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE DISTURBANCE MOVES EAST OF THE REGION AND THE FRONT DROPS BACK TO THE SOUTH. ALONG WITH THE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND POTENTIAL...THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF A BRIEF TORNADO...PARTICULARLY FOR ANY STORM WHICH RIDES EAST-SOUTHEAST ALONG THE SURFACE FRONT WHERE LOW LEVEL SHEAR WILL BE ENHANCED. AT THIS TIME...THE TORNADO THREAT LOOKS PRETTY LOW DUE TO BOTH THE MODEST AMOUNTS OF INSTABILITY AND THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE FRONT REMAINS JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. WILL STILL NEED TO WATCH PARAMETERS CLOSELY THIS EVENING TO SEE IF CONDITIONS BECOME LESS STABLE OR THE BOUNDARY LIFTS FARTHER NORTH THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST. UPPER RIDGING WILL DEVELOP IN WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM...BRINGING QUIET WEATHER AND SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES TO THE REGION TOMORROW. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE IS PROGGED TO DEVELOP OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY TOMORROW NIGHT...BEFORE DRIVING SOUTHEAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS ON THURSDAY. THIS WILL FORCE ANOTHER COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD INTO NORTH TEXAS ON FRIDAY. DECENT AMOUNTS OF LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY WILL BE PRESENT AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FRIDAY. HOWEVER...THE SHORTWAVE WILL BE EXITING TO THE EAST WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY WEAKENING...LIMITING THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT NECESSARY WIDESPREAD CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. THUS...WILL CONTINUE WITH THE CONSERVATIVE LOW-END CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS AREA-WIDE ON FRIDAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLD FRONT. A MUCH MORE PROMINENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH IS FORECAST TO SWING SOUTHEASTWARD FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTO THE FOUR-CORNERS REGION FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. THE RESULTING CYCLOGENESIS IN LEE OF THE ROCKIES WILL CAUSE THE FRONT TO LIFT NORTHWARD BACK INTO NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. ISENTROPIC ASCENT WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM DEEPENS TO OUR NORTHWEST AND THE FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTH...BRINGING A BETTER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTH TEXAS ON SATURDAY. THERE COULD BE SOME STRONG STORMS...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE REGION IN PROXIMITY OF THE SURFACE FRONT. THE FRONT WILL QUICKLY PUSH SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA AGAIN SATURDAY EVENING AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM ACCELERATES EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS. MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN STORE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE COULD PRODUCE SOME WINTRY PRECIPITATION OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...BUT AT THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE RED RIVER. WE WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON TEMPERATURES SUNDAY NIGHT...AS LOWS WILL APPROACH THE FREEZING MARK BY MONDAY MORNING ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION. A WARM-UP WILL THEN BE IN STORE DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING DEVELOPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN U.S. 30 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 47 70 51 74 60 / 10 0 0 10 30 WACO, TX 47 70 51 76 62 / 50 5 0 5 20 PARIS, TX 42 66 43 68 57 / 10 0 0 20 30 DENTON, TX 43 68 48 76 58 / 10 0 0 20 30 MCKINNEY, TX 43 67 47 73 58 / 10 0 0 20 30 DALLAS, TX 47 70 53 74 61 / 10 0 0 10 30 TERRELL, TX 45 69 48 75 60 / 10 0 0 10 30 CORSICANA, TX 47 70 51 74 61 / 30 5 0 10 30 TEMPLE, TX 48 70 50 75 62 / 60 5 0 5 20 MINERAL WELLS, TX 43 69 49 79 54 / 20 0 0 10 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/30
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 326 PM CDT TUE MAR 19 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201200- 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- 326 PM CDT TUE MAR 19 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY EARLY THIS EVENING FROM COMANCHE TO LAMPASAS...THEN FORM INTO A MULTI-STORM COMPLEX SOUTH OF A STEPHENVILLE...TO HILLSBORO...TO PALESTINE LINE LATER IN THE EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTH OUT OF CENTRAL TEXAS BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND SUNRISE WEDNESDAY. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS. HOWEVER...A BRIEF WINDOW MAY EXIST FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO WITH INITIAL DISCRETE STORMS THAT DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 ON THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS ON THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE LINGERING ACROSS EASTERN NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE SATURDAY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED SOUTHWEST OF A STEPHENVILLE...HILLSBORO...PALESTINE LINE THIS EVENING. 05/
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Amateur radio operators reported thunderstorm winds between 60 and 70 mph west of Nix. The location was one half mile east of the Lampasas River.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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