Afternoon thunderstorms developed across the northern half of the region where more than one boundary/outflow boundary was noted. Two of the storms producing winds near 60 mph but very little damage was reported.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Afternoon thunderstorms developed across the northern half of the region where more than one boundary/outflow boundary was noted. Two of the storms producing winds near 60 mph but very little damage was reported.
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 9, 2:40 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 340 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 .DISCUSSION... WE ARE EXPERIENCING SIMILAR TRENDS THIS AFTERNOON AS SEEN 24 HOURS AGO. HOT CONDITIONS WITH TEMPERATURES BETWEEN THE MID 90S AND 102 DEGREES WERE NOTED AT 3 PM. A SUBTLE SHORTWAVE ALOFT CONTINUED TO REMAIN OVER SW OKLAHOMA AND NW TEXAS WITH A WEAK SURFACE LOW NEAR THROCKMORTON. THE AXIS OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS SLIGHTLY FURTHER NORTH TODAY VERSUS YESTERDAY WHERE A BOUNDARY WAS EVIDENT ON AREA OBSERVATIONS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM ABILENE AND BRECKENRIDGE NORTH TOWARD WICHITA FALLS AND BOWIE. STEERING WINDS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA CONTINUE TO BE WEAK...SO CONVECTION WILL BE SLOW TO MOVE WITH VERY LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED AGAIN WITH ANY SLOW-MOVING STORMS. IN ADDITION...THE VERY HOT TEMPERATURES AND INVERTED-V PROFILES BELOW 725 MB WILL LEND TO VERY GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS WITH ANY STORMS THAT COLLAPSE. DETERMINING WHERE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MOVE AND NEW STORMS DEVELOP THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL BE DIFFICULT...BUT BEST CHANCES WILL REMAIN ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. WE EXPANDED THE HEAT ADVISORY ON THE LATE MORNING UPDATE TO ENCOMPASS AREAS EAST OF A BOWIE-GRANBURY-GATESVILLE-KILLEEN LINE THROUGH 7 PM SUNDAY. HIGHS ON SUNDAY ARE EXPECTED TO SOAR WITH SOME AREAS EXCEEDING THE CENTURY MARK ONCE AGAIN. THOUGH THE EAST WILL BE RELATIVELY COOLER WITH REGARD TO AMBIENT TEMPERATURES...HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE HIGHER ACROSS THESE AREAS...RESULTING HEAT INDEX VALUES. LOCATIONS WITHIN THE HEAT ADVISORY AREA WILL SEE HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 105-108 DEGREES ONCE AGAIN BY LATE AFTERNOON SUNDAY. I HAVE ALSO INSERTED A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTHWEST ONCE AGAIN BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE MAIN BOUNDARY AND SHORTWAVE ALOFT EXPECTED TO REMAIN NEAR OUR NORTHWEST COUNTIES. ANOTHER SUMMER COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT SHOULD BE SHALLOW...BUT PROGRESSIVE WITH SUPPORT FROM A DIGGING LONGWAVE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE OZARKS AND A RETREATING UPPER RIDGE TO THE WEST. THERE ARE SLIGHT TIMING DIFFERENCES WITH THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED RAIN CHANCES. HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW THE SLIGHTLY FASTER TECH WRF...NAM12 AND EUROPEAN MODELS WITH REGARD TO FRONTAL TIMING. THE FEELING IS THAT PREVIOUS STORM OUTFLOW TO THE NORTH WILL AID THE SHALLOW COLD FRONT ALONG. BY LATER MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...THE FRONT WILL MAKE IT/S WAY INTO CENTRAL TEXAS WITH POPS ENDING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA BY TUESDAY EVENING. THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LONGWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE EAST MID WEEK AND ALLOW THE UPPER RIDGE TO BUILD BACK OVER THE AREA FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS WILL SEE A RETURN TO HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS ONCE AGAIN. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS BEGIN TO SHOW DISAGREEMENT ON THE PATTERN BY LATER NEXT WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH REGARD TO A SYSTEM MOVING EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THE GFS IS MORE ROBUST WITH THIS SHORTWAVE TROUGH WHILE THE EUROPEAN MODEL IS MUCH WEAKER WITH THIS FEATURE. EITHER WAY...IT APPEARS THE BULK OF THE BETTER LIFT WILL REMAIN TO THE NORTH AND WEST...EVEN WITH THE GFS. THE SLIGHT CHANCES THAT WERE IN THE FORECAST HAVE BEEN REMOVED WITH THE AREA APPEARING CAPPED UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE UPPER HIGH OVER THE DEEP SOUTH. 05/ && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1232 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014/ /18Z TAFS/ CONCERNS...VFR WILL PREVAIL AGAIN BUT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION AND/OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES COULD AFFECT THE DFW METROPLEX AIRPORTS AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE REGION FOR THE MOST PART BUT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. DFW IS MORE LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED BY THE CONVECTION AND WILL CONTINUE WITH A VCTS MENTION FROM 20Z UNTIL 00Z. ANY STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND/OR OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT COULD RESULT IN A VARIETY OF WIND SPEEDS AND DIRECTIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL BE MONITORING THE TRENDS AND UPDATING AS NEEDED FOR ANY STORMS/OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES THAT MAY AFFECT THE METROPLEX AIRPORTS. THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN NORTH OF KACT. OTHERWISE...EXPECT SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS LESS THAN 12 KTS WITH OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS. HI-BASED CU ALONG WITH SOME MID AND HIGH CLOUDS WILL BE PRESENT. 82/JLD && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 80 104 79 98 78 / 20 10 20 30 30 WACO, TX 77 101 78 101 76 / 5 5 0 20 30 PARIS, TX 74 99 77 95 73 / 20 20 30 30 20 DENTON, TX 76 104 77 98 73 / 20 20 30 30 20 MCKINNEY, TX 75 101 77 97 71 / 20 20 20 30 20 DALLAS, TX 81 103 80 99 78 / 20 10 20 30 30 TERRELL, TX 76 101 78 99 76 / 10 10 20 30 30 CORSICANA, TX 77 100 78 99 76 / 5 10 5 20 30 TEMPLE, TX 74 100 76 100 75 / 5 5 0 20 30 MINERAL WELLS, TX 75 103 75 98 73 / 20 20 20 30 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR TXZ091>095-102>107- 117>123-131>135-144>148-157>162-174-175. && 05/
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 325 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101145- 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- 325 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO PALESTINE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE...TO GRANBURY...TO KILLEEN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE...TO GRANBURY...TO KILLEEN. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF AN EASTLAND TO CLEBURNE TO CANTON LINE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THEN SHIFT TO AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED NORTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO PALESTINE THROUGH THIS EVENING. 82/JLD
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 205 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotters estimated a 60 mph wind gust near Lake Crook.
A measured wind gust of 59 mph was recorded at the Gainesville Municipal Airport (KGLE) automated weather station.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 539977, 539976.