An upper level storm system moved across north Texas on the 21st and 22nd of the month. Cold air filtered in on the 21st, while moisture returned on the 22nd.
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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.
An upper level storm system moved across north Texas on the 21st and 22nd of the month. Cold air filtered in on the 21st, while moisture returned on the 22nd. A few areas reported sleet and freezing rain, with minimal impacts. While the main focus was light accumulations of sleet, most areas in north Texas also received rainfall. Some of the rain led to traffic accidents due to hydroplaning.
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 21, 11:52 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1152 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014 .AVIATION... GENERALLY IFR CONDITIONS ARE PREVAILING ACROSS THE REGION BUT MVFR AND VFR CIGS ARE NOW JUST SOUTH OF WACO WHERE MOISTURE ADVECTION IS TAPERING OFF. WILL SHOW CIGS AT IFR OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH MID MORNING SATURDAY FOR THE METROPLEX...BUT FOR WACO THESE MAY PREVAIL AT LOW MVFR. CIGS SHOULD LIFT TO MVFR BY LATE MORNING BUT WILL LIKELY STAY MVFR THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH THE REGION ON THE LEADING EDGE OF A SURGE OF GULF MOISTURE. THIS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH 9Z OR SO. WHILE ISOLATED THUNDER IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE...MOST ACTIVITY WILL STAY AS SHOWERS. THE TRUE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD STAY JUST WEST OF THE TAF SITES...AND IT MAY GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO AFW/FTW TO WARRANT AN INCLUSION OF VCTS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. HAVE HELD OFF ON THIS...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH RADAR TRENDS. LIGHT BR OR DZ WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE LATE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING HOURS...BUT GENERALLY NO SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION IS EXPECTED AT TAF SITES UNTIL SATURDAY AFTERNOON. WILL BRING VCTS INTO TAFS FROM WEST TO EAST AROUND MIDDAY SATURDAY. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH ENOUGH TO SHOW PREVAILING TSRA FROM MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AT ALL TAF SITES...WITH PREVAILING STEADY RAIN AND VCTS UNTIL 3-4Z SUNDAY WHEN IT SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST. SOUTHEAST WINDS AT 10-15KT WILL PREVAIL UNTIL STORMS ARRIVE WHEN WINDS WILL BE VARIABLE WITH HIGHER GUSTS. WINDS SHOULD TAKE ON A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION AFTER INITIAL WAVE OF STORMS BY LATE AFTERNOON...BUT WINDS WILL SWITCH TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 5-10KT ONCE RAIN ENDS SATURDAY NIGHT. LOOKING AHEAD INTO SUNDAY...WESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE AS DAYTIME MIXING OCCURS...WHICH MAY RESULT IN SOME CROSSWIND ISSUES ON N-S RUNWAYS. BASED ON 850MB WINDS AND RULE OF THUMB FOR SURFACE WINDS...WEST WINDS AT 20G30KT MAY BE POSSIBLE EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON SUNDAY. THESE WINDS WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THE CROSSWIND EVENT IN OCTOBER...BUT MAY BE ENOUGH TO RESTRICT TRAFFIC VOLUME. TR.92 && .UPDATE... ISSUED AN UPDATE FOR CLOUDS/HOURLY TEMPERATURES. PACKAGE SEEMS ON TRACK OTHERWISE. POPS MAY SEEM A BIT HIGH FOR THIS EVENING...BUT WITH THE LOW CEILINGS/FOG/DRIZZLE DEVELOPING...A NUMBER OF AREA MAY PICK UP A HUNDREDTH. 84 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 257 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014/ LOW LEVEL WAA CONTINUES OVER THE ENTIRE AREA WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE STRONG SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE EXPECTED TO MOVE OVER NORTHWEST MEXICO BY THIS EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTH TOWARD OUR CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES. NOTHING TOO SIGNIFICANT IS EXPECTED WITH THIS ACTIVITY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. WHERE BREAKS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE CLOUD COVER WEST OF I-35 TODAY...HIGHS HAVE WARMED INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S AND BETTER INSTABILITY WAS AVAILABLE. HOWEVER MODELS ARE NOT KEEN ON A WHOLE LOT OCCURRING ACROSS THIS AREA UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING...DUE TO A SHORTWAVE RIDGE OVERHEAD. LOW LEVEL FLOW THROUGH 850MB INCREASES TO OVER 40 KTS LATER THIS EVENING...AS MID LEVEL HEIGHT FALLS APPROACH OUR WESTERN COUNTIES IN ADVANCE OF THE POTENT SHORTWAVE MOVING EAST OVER NORTHERN MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. STRONGER LARGE-SCALE ASCENT WILL ARRIVE AND CORRESPOND WITH THE WESTERN EDGE OF STRONG LOW LEVEL WAA BY MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH DAYBREAK SATURDAY ACROSS OUR FAR WEST AND NORTHWEST COUNTIES. AS THIS OCCURS...SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THESE AREAS AS THE ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN CONTINUES SATURATING THROUGH 700MB AND ERODING THE CAPPING INVERSION ENTIRELY. SURFACE TEMPERATURES ACROSS THIS AREA SHOULD SLOWLY COOL THROUGH THE 60S INTO THE UPPER 50S BY MORNING...SO WOULD EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO BE MOSTLY ELEVATED IN NATURE. THE MARGINAL RISK AREA ACROSS THIS AREA LOOKS REASONABLE CONSIDERING THE STEEPENING MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL. SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY EVENING ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE MAIN PERIODS SHOWERS AND STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...THE POTENT SHORTWAVE NEGATIVELY LIFTS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS...BEFORE EXITING EAST OF THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY. THE STRONGEST WIND SHEAR AND BETTER INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS OUR CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES CLOSER TO THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF A 80-100 KT UPPER JET MAXIMUM AND RICHER DEW POINTS. HOWEVER...PERIODS OF SHOWER ACTIVITY AND CLOUD COVER WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE SYSTEM AND ONLY A THIN AND PROGRESSIVELY MOVING AXIS OF RICHER SURFACE DEW PTS WILL LIMIT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TO MAINLY OUR CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES. WE CAN/T RULE OUT ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FURTHER NORTH TO THE I-20/I-30 CORRIDORS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE MAIN DYNAMICS AND FORCING MOVE ACROSS AND THE SURFACE TROUGH MOVES IN. IN ADDITION...HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS THAT MAY RESULT IN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND FLOODING OF TYPICAL LOW LYING AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD BE HEAVIEST ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA DUE TO A MORE PROLONGED EVENT VERSUS AREAS FURTHER SOUTHEAST. THE SURFACE TROUGH SHOULD CLEAR THROUGH ALL OF THE AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING WITH A MILD AND MOSTLY SUNNY DAY SUNDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE 60S ALONG THE IMMEDIATE RED RIVER VALLEY TO THE 70S ELSEWHERE. A PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE REGION LATE SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT IN ADVANCE OF ANOTHER SHORTWAVE ROTATING THROUGH THE CENTRAL U.S CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT. AT THIS TIME WE ARE NOT GOING TO ADVERTISE ANY LOW RAIN CHANCES ALONG THE RED RIVER AS MOISTURE WILL BE FAIRLY ELEVATED WITH VERY DRY LOW LEVELS. WHAT WE DO EXPECT ARE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES TO BE IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S WITH BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS AND MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. THE BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER THE CENTRAL U.S WILL CONTINUE TO DIG OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THROUGH MID WEEK...BEFORE MOVING GRADUALLY EAST OF THE AREA. SUCCESSIVE REINFORCING CONTINENTAL AIRMASS WILL KEEP THE AREA COOL AND DRY WITH DEEP MOISTURE LACKING. TEMPERATURES MAY WARM SLIGHTLY WEDNESDAY INTO THANKSGIVING... BUT ANOTHER COLD FRONT BY FRIDAY WILL MAINTAIN THE COOL AND DRY WEATHER THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. 05/ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 60 65 54 72 44 / 60 100 80 5 10 WACO, TX 63 68 52 75 44 / 40 100 90 0 0 PARIS, TX 55 65 55 69 42 / 60 100 100 10 10 DENTON, TX 60 64 48 71 41 / 70 100 70 10 10 MCKINNEY, TX 59 63 49 70 41 / 60 100 90 10 10 DALLAS, TX 60 66 55 72 45 / 50 100 90 5 10 TERRELL, TX 60 66 52 72 43 / 40 100 100 10 0 CORSICANA, TX 60 69 55 74 45 / 30 100 100 5 0 TEMPLE, TX 63 69 52 76 43 / 40 100 90 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 59 66 46 71 40 / 70 100 50 5 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1049 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-230500- 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- 1049 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE WEST OF I-35. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY WITH STORMS ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST SATURDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE TO PALESTINE. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE HIGHEST IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED SATURDAY...MAINLY SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO PALESTINE LINE. 92
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1113 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014
TXZ116-117-220545-
PALO PINTO TX-PARKER TX-
1113 PM CST FRI NOV 21 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EASTERN PALO PINTO COUNTY
WESTERN PARKER COUNTY
AT 1114 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTH OF MINERAL WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT
35 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MINERAL WELLS...COOL AND
MINERAL WELLS STATE PARK.
NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3297 9812 3291 9787 3256 9800 3256 9807
3251 9807 3251 9824
TIME...MOT...LOC 0514Z 195DEG 32KT 3258 9811
92SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
100 AM CST SAT NOV 22 2014
TXZ117-118-220730-
TARRANT TX-PARKER TX-
100 AM CST SAT NOV 22 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN PARKER COUNTY
TARRANT COUNTY
AT 100 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF BENBROOK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALEDO...ANNETTA...AZLE...
BENBROOK...BLUE MOUND...EAGLE MOUNTAIN...FORT WORTH...HALTOM CITY...
LAKE WORTH...LAKESIDE...RICHLAND HILLS...RIVER OAKS...SAGINAW...
SANSOM PARK...WESTWORTH AND WHITE SETTLEMENT.
NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3279 9714 3258 9754 3256 9757 3267 9769
3300 9746 3300 9744
TIME...MOT...LOC 0700Z 215DEG 19KT 3267 9756The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 sleet, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
The Decatur fire department reported sleet accumulations in the city of Decatur. The accumulations were mainly on grassy areas and rooftops, but a few roadways had icy spots.
An Anderson County Commissioner reported a bridge washed out on Anderson County Road 2933 just southwest of Palestine.
The Gordon fire department reported sleet accumulations affected travel in the city. Accumulations of less than one tenth of an inch were reported.
There were several social media reports on light accumulations of sleet in Jacksboro. The sleet was slowly accumulating and there were several wrecks in the area.
A tour bus, carrying seven people, lost control and hit a bridge pillar on Interstate 30 during rainy conditions. Four people on the bus were injured. The bus, and the bridge pillar suffered damages as well.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2014
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: 548151, 548153, 548150, 548152, 548197.