Another cold front moved through northern and central Texas during the late part of November. Temperatures again were in the critical range where most of the region received rain, but some locations saw accumulating sleet.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Another cold front moved through northern and central Texas during the late part of November. Temperatures again were in the critical range where most of the region received rain, but some locations saw accumulating sleet.
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 Nov 24, 8:23 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 823 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013 .UPDATE... THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY AND WE HAVE ALSO REMOVEDANDERSON...FALLS...FREESTONE...AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES FROM THE ADVISORY. THE 00Z FWD SOUNDING SHOWS A SIGNIFICANT WARM NOSE STILL IN PLACE OVER THE REGION AND THE DOWNSTREAM SOUNDING AT DEL RIO SHOWS AN EVEN WARMER LAYER WITH A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE NEAR 8 DEGREES. THE 00Z SOUNDING ALSO INDICATES DRY AIR STILL IN PLACE IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THE MODELS ARE CONSISTENT THAT SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN THE AREA WHERE THE HEAVIEST QPF WILL OCCUR WILL REMAIN AT OR ABOVE FREEZING...EVEN WITH WET BULBING OCCURRING AS THE ATMOSPHERE SATURATES FROM TOP-DOWN. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE ACROSS OUR NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES WHERE TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN A FEW DEGREES BELOW FREEZING. HOWEVER...QPF AMOUNTS IN OUR NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE RELATIVELY LIGHT TONIGHT AND MONDAY. ALSO TO CONSIDER IS THE ACTUAL GROUND/SOIL TEMPERATURES. THESE CONTINUE TO REMAIN ABOVE FREEZING AND THUS MOST FROZEN PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO MELT AS IT REACHES THE GROUND. HOWEVER...WE WILL LIKELY SEE SOME ACCUMULATIONS OF SLEET AND ICE ON ELEVATED SURFACES SUCH AS BRIDGES...OVERPASSES...TREES...AND POWER LINES. OUR CURRENT THINKING IS WE WILL SEE A MIX OF RAIN/FREEZING RAIN/SLEET WITH THIS EVENT. IT IS LIKELY THAT SOME ISOLATED LOCATIONS WILL SEE MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS FROM FROZEN PRECIPITATION BUT OVERALL THE IMPACTS FROM FROZEN PRECIPITATION LOOK LESS THAN EXPECTED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS. WITH FROZEN PRECIPITATION AND TRAVEL IMPACTS STILL EXPECTED...IN PARTICULAR ON BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES...BUT ACCUMULATIONS NOT REACHING WARNING CRITERIA...DECIDED TO GO WITH AN ADVISORY. SOME ICING WILL OCCUR BUT ICE AMOUNTS WILL BE LESS THAN 1/4 OF AN INCH. IN OUR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES...WHERE THE WARNING/ADVISORY WAS REMOVED...TEMPERATURES LOOK TOO WARM EXCEPT FOR MAYBE SOME SLEET TO OCCASIONALLY MIX IN. 82/JLD && .AVIATION... ANOTHER ROUND OF LIGHT RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS ALL NORTH TEXAS TERMINALS THROUGH EARLY EVENING WITH THE BEST COVERAGE OF RAIN OVER WACO. IT STILL APPEARS THAT THE PRIMARY BATCH OF PRECIP WILL COME THROUGH DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. 00Z FWD SOUNDING DATA IS SHOWING A SIGNIFICANT WARM NOSE ABOVE 800 MB AND THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A DECREASE IN SLEET POTENTIAL. OF COURSE...SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL BE CRITICAL IN FREEZING RAIN POTENTIAL. THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO IS THAT OVERNIGHT PRECIP WILL MOSTLY FALL AS RAIN WITH BRIEF FREEZING RAIN TOWARD SUNRISE...ESPECIALLY AT AFW AND FTW. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM ABOVE FREEZING MID TO LATE MORNING MONDAY AND ANY PRECIP THAT FALLS SHOULD BE RAIN. VFR CEILINGS EARLY THIS EVENING WILL LOWER AS PRECIPITATION FALLS. MVFR CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT WITH IFR CEILINGS AFTER SUNRISE MONDAY. CEILINGS SHOULD LIFT TO MVFR MONDAY AFTERNOON AND ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD END. A NORTHEAST TO NORTH WIND WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY AT SPEEDS BETWEEN 4 AND 11 KNOTS. 79 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 417 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013/ THE INITIAL IMPULSE THAT SWUNG THROUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY WAS RATHER BENIGN. THE BULK OF THE PRECIPITATION IT GENERATED WAS CONSUMED BY A VERY DRY SUB-CLOUD LAYER SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET DEEP. LIQUID RAIN AND SOME SLEET DID REACH THE SURFACE. SOME LIGHT ICING OCCURRED NORTH AND WEST OF THE METROPLEX...BUT ROAD SURFACES REMAINED IN GOOD CONDITION...EVEN WHERE SURFACE TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW FREEZING MUCH OF THE DAY. AMDARS SOUNDINGS IN VICINITY OF THE METROPLEX SHOW A NEARLY ISOTHERMAL (MOSTLY SUBFREEZING) LAYER IN THE LOWEST 5KFT AGL. THE TEMPERATURES ARE WITHIN A FEW DEGREES OF FREEZING...LIMITING THE FREEZING OF LIQUID PRECIPITATION ON ITS JOURNEY. DEW POINTS HAVE EXPERIENCED A REASONABLE RISE BASED ON THE PRECIPITATION...BUT SURFACE TEMPERATURES FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE THE EVAPORATIVE COOLING ANTICIPATED. WHILE THIS HAS RESULTED IN MINIMAL IMPACTS TODAY...IT HAS LEFT PLENTY OF ROOM FOR COOLING WITH ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION TONIGHT. THE ONGOING PRECIPITATION WILL EXIT TO THE EAST SOON AFTER 00Z (6 PM CST). HOWEVER...A SMALL CLUSTER OF PRECIPITATION IS ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. IN ADDITION...OTHER PATCHY LIGHT PRECIP IS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST...ASSURING NON- ZERO POPS BETWEEN THE EXITING IMPULSE AND THE MAIN EVENT LATE TONIGHT. NORTH TEXAS IS OFTEN IN THAT UNCERTAIN REGION BETWEEN ALL SNOW AND ALL RAIN. THIS IS CERTAINLY THE CASE WITH THIS SERIES OF EVENTS...BUT TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE...GUIDANCE HAS BEEN AS INCONCLUSIVE AS ANY EVENT IN THE LAST DECADE. WHILE A COLD RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF THE WARNING AREA REMAINS A POSSIBILITY (E.G. GFS PERFECT PROG)...OUR FORECAST IS PRIMARILY BASED ON THE SCIENCE OF THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES...THE EVOLUTION OF WHICH HAS SO FAR BEEN WELL FORECAST. BUT DESPITE REASONABLE MODEL CONSENSUS IN THAT RESPECT...THIS DOES NOT SIMPLIFY THE PRECIPITATION TYPE FORECAST. WITH THE APPROACHING UPPER SYSTEM FURTHER COOLING THE COLUMN ALOFT...EXPECT RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN SHOULD TRANSITION TO SLEET THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE WARNED AREA TOWARD MONDAY MORNING. EVEN IF THE WARM NOSE PERSISTS...THE SUB-FREEZING LAYER BENEATH SHOULD CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY COOL. THE BATTLE BETWEEN SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL BE BASED ON HOW MUCH BELOW FREEZING THIS LAYER IS. IT APPEARS THAT IT WILL BE PRIMARILY BETWEEN -5C AND 0C...WHICH WOULD TEND TO LIMIT THE SLEET POTENTIAL. BUT ITS DEPTH...COMBINED WITH THE CAPACITY FOR ADDITIONAL EVAPORATIVE COOLING...SUGGEST THE PRIMARY MODE SHOULD BE SLEET. A SNOW PROFILE WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD IN NORTHWEST ZONES. IN CONTRAST...RAIN WILL BE THE PRIMARY MODE IN THE UNWARNED COUNTIES OF THE SOUTHEAST (AND SOME ADJACENT AREAS). WITH THE BULK OF THE WINTRY PRECIP COMING TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING...THE WARNING WILL REMAIN INTACT. EVEN IF LOCAL CRITERIA ARE NOT MET...OUR EXPECTATION IS FOR IMPACTS DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE...WHICH COULD BE CONSIDERABLE IN SOME AREAS. ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL LIKELY BE UNDER 1/4 INCH...LARGELY LIMITED TO BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. SLEET/SNOW ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD TOP ONE INCH WITHIN THE HEAVIEST BAND OF PRECIPITATION. AT THIS TIME...IT STILL APPEARS THIS WILL BE SOUTH OF I-20 (AND PRIMARILY WEST OF I-35). LOW TEMPERATURES MONDAY ARE BASED ON PRECIPITATION-ENHANCED EVAPORATIVE COOLING WHILE HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE BASED ON ICY GROUND LIMITING WARMING. DESPITE THE WARMTH IN SOME OF THE GFS OUTPUT...THE MAV GUIDANCE IS ACTUALLY QUITE REASONABLE FOR DAYTIME TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA. THE MAIN UPPER LOW WILL TRAVERSE THE AREA EARLY TUESDAY...LIKELY PASSING SOUTH OF THE CWA. OUR SOUTHEAST ZONES MAY BE CLOSER TO ADEQUATE MOISTURE FOR ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL...BUT FOR MUCH OF THE AREA...AMOUNTS SHOULD BE LIMITED. NOW THAT THE FEATURE IS MOVING...MODEL CONSENSUS IS EXCELLENT. BUT IF ITS EVENTUAL MOTION SHOULD CHANGE TO A MORE NORTHERLY TRACK...TUESDAY MORNING COULD BE VERY INTERESTING. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 32 33 32 43 30 / 90 80 30 10 0 WACO, TX 32 35 32 45 29 / 100 90 50 20 0 PARIS, TX 31 32 29 40 25 / 80 90 30 20 0 DENTON, TX 31 32 29 42 27 / 80 70 20 10 0 MCKINNEY, TX 32 32 29 42 28 / 80 80 30 10 0 DALLAS, TX 32 34 32 43 29 / 90 80 30 10 0 TERRELL, TX 32 34 30 42 28 / 90 90 40 20 0 CORSICANA, TX 32 34 31 43 29 / 100 90 50 20 0 TEMPLE, TX 33 34 31 44 29 / 100 90 50 20 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 29 33 28 45 26 / 80 60 20 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL NOON CST MONDAY FOR TXZ091>095- 100>107-115>123-129>135-141>146-156>159. && 79/82
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 903 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-260315- 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- 903 PM CST SUN NOV 24 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS NORTHWEST OF A TEMPLE TO ATHENS LINE. A MIX OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...AND SLEET WILL FALL OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS...ESPECIALLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME ACCUMULATIONS OF SLEET OR ICE ARE EXPECTED WHICH WILL RESULT IN SOME HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NOON MONDAY AS A MIX OF RAIN...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN CONTINUES DURING THE MORNING HOURS. ICY SPOTS ON ROADS WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE. LIGHT SNOW OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF NORTH TEXAS MONDAY AFTERNOON...WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE REST OF THE REGION MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. HOWEVER...ONLY LIGHT SNOW AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT REPORTS OF ICY ROADS...ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE OR SLEET...AND DOWNED POWER LINES OR TRESS WILL BE APPRECIATED. 82/JLD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 winter storm, 1 sleet. Local standard time, as filed.
Broadcast media reports patchy ice on Grayson County roads which were causing accidents.
Broadcast media reported 0.01 inch of freezing rain in Sherman.
Several reports came in through social media, reporting 0.05 inch of freezing rain in southwest Tarrant County. Approximately 18,000 customers lost power for a brief period of time.
Paris Police Department reported 0.05 inch of freezing rain in Paris along highway 271.
Grayson County Sheriffs Department reported 0.15 inch of freezing rain in Denison and across the County. Accidents were reported along highways 377, 82, and 75.
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, November 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: 484670, 484671, 484672, 484673, 484674.