A 10-year-old girl was struck by lightning in Holland (Bell County) while playing under a tree.
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A 10-year-old girl was struck by lightning in Holland (Bell County) while playing under a tree.
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 30, 1:47 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 247 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 .DISCUSSION... A BROAD LONGWAVE MID-LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDED FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI...TENNESSEE AND OHIO VALLEYS TODAY WITH A POSITIVE TILTED RIDGE ANCHORED WEST OVER THE ROCKIES. A MYRIAD OF SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH...TWO OF WHICH OVER SOUTHWEST TX AND EASTERN OK THAT MAY HAVE AN IMPACT ON NORTH TX SENSIBLE WEATHER. A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDED FROM SHERMAN...TO D/FW...TO NEAR COMANCHE WITH HIGHER SURFACE DEW PTS YIELDING SBCAPE VALUES BETWEEN 1000-2000 J/KG TO THE EAST OF THIS FEATURE. TEMPERATURES CURRENTLY RANGED FROM THE MID- UPPER 80S IN CENTRAL TEXAS WHERE A MID-HIGH CLOUD CANOPY HAS LINGERED MOST OF THE DAY...TO THE LOWER-MID 90S NORTH OF I-20 WHERE SUNSHINE HAS BEEN MORE ABUNDANT. CHALLENGES ABOUND ONCE AGAIN TODAY REGARDING CONVECTIVE INITIATION DUE TO THE MESOSCALE NATURE OF LIFTING MECHANISMS NOTED ABOVE. NORTH AND CENTRAL TX REMAIN SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST TX AND ERN OKLAHOMA SHORTWAVE WITH BOTH PROGRESSING SLOWLY SOUTH. IN ADDITION...A DEFORMATION/FRONTOGENETICAL REGION ALOFT WAS NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY BETWEEN THESE TWO SHORTWAVES NORTH OF I-20. I AM EXPECTING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON BETWEEN I-30 AND THE RED RIVER TO THE EAST OF THE SURFACE TROUGH WHERE HEATING HAS BEEN STRONG AND WHERE A THETA-E AXIS HAS SET UP. FURTHER SOUTH OVER CENTRAL TEXAS...THE MAJORITY OF ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN IN THE FORM OF LIGHT SHOWERS. ANY POCKET OF INSOLATION THAT DOES OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL TX MAY ALLOW FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST COUNTIES COULD REACH STRONG LIMITS WITH GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. RAIN CHANCES SHOULD CONTINUE PRIMARILY SOUTH OF I-20 FOR THE EVENING AS BETTER FORCING WITH THE MID LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS SHIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH OF I-20. AFTER SUNSET...STRONGER ISOLATED STORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN WITH LOSS OF HEATING AND DIMINISHING INSTABILITY. THE AREA OF MID-LEVEL DEFORMATION/FRONTOGENESIS SHIFTS SOUTH INTO CENTRAL TEXAS ON MONDAY WITH MUCH THE CWA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SUBSIDENCE AND DRIER AIR NORTH OF THIS FEATURE. THE SHORTWAVE FURTHER NORTHEAST WILL REMAIN EAST OF PARIS AND PUT THAT PART OF THE CWA WITHIN AN AREA OF SUBSIDENCE AS WELL. I HAVE LEFT THE FORECAST DRY MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT WITH THIS IN MIND. THE ARKLATEX SHORTWAVE WILL RETROGRADE WESTWARD TO NEAR THE I-35 CORRIDOR TUESDAY-THURSDAY AND WILL ADVERTISE DIURNAL CONVECTIVE CHANCES EAST OF I-35 AND SOUTH OF I-20 WHERE DAILY SEABREEZE BOUNDARIES MAY AIDE IN A FOCUS FOR LOW CONVECTIVE CHANCES. THE MID-LEVEL TROUGH WILL SHIFT BACK TO THE EAST OF THE AREA FRIDAY INTO NEXT WEEKEND...AS MID LEVEL SYSTEM DEEPENS AND ORGANIZES OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. IN ADDITION...A POTENTIAL OMEGA BLOCK PATTERN SETS UP OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST AND GREAT LAKES AREA WHICH SHOULD KEEP NORTH TEXAS DRY AND SEASONABLE. TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER. 05/ && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 132 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015/ /18Z TAFS/ CONCERNS...AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. METROPLEX... SIGNIFICANTLY VEERED WINDS WILL NOT DIMINISH BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE. AND WITH SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON...MLCAPE VALUES MAY EXCEED 1000J/KG. THIS INSTABILITY WILL BE ESSENTIALLY UNCAPPED BY LATE AFTERNOON...WHEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP. ALTHOUGH THE OLD SURFACE FRONT IS WELL TO THE NORTHWEST...WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO OBLITERATE ALL THE RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...WHICH MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR INITIATION. WITH WEAK SHEAR...THE ACTIVITY WILL BE DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY SURFACE HEATING AND SHOULD DECAY AROUND SUNSET. WACO... SHOWERS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO DISSIPATE...AND LINGERING CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT SURFACE HEATING THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY IN THE 90S FROM CORSICANA TO MEXIA...SHOWING THAT INCREASING INSTABILITY IS NOT FAR AWAY. WITH MID-LEVEL FORCING REMAINING AT THE HEAT OF THE DAY...THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP WITHIN CENTRAL TEXAS. THE ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD...AND WEAK STEERING FLOW WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF AREA INDIVIDUAL STORMS WILL COVER. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 75 96 76 93 75 / 10 0 0 5 5 WACO, TX 73 95 73 93 73 / 20 0 5 10 5 PARIS, TX 71 94 70 92 71 / 20 5 5 10 10 DENTON, TX 72 95 73 93 73 / 10 0 0 5 5 MCKINNEY, TX 72 95 73 92 73 / 10 0 0 5 5 DALLAS, TX 76 95 77 93 76 / 10 0 0 5 5 TERRELL, TX 71 94 72 92 72 / 20 5 5 10 10 CORSICANA, TX 74 95 74 92 74 / 20 5 5 20 10 TEMPLE, TX 71 97 72 92 71 / 30 5 5 20 10 MINERAL WELLS, TX 70 96 71 94 71 / 10 0 0 5 5 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 252 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-311100- 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- 252 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS...WITH THE BEST CHANCES SOUTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM TEMPLE/KILLEEN TO ATHENS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 25
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 257 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 TXZ157-158-302045- BELL TX-CORYELL TX- 257 PM CDT SUN AUG 30 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN BELL AND SOUTHEASTERN CORYELL COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT... AT 257 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF FORT HOOD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KILLEEN...COPPERAS COVE...HARKER HEIGHTS AND FORT HOOD. LAT...LON 3099 9771 3117 9798 3134 9777 3127 9754 TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 033DEG 10KT 3123 9774 STALLEY
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 10-year-old girl was struck by lightning on Landfill Road in Holland while playing under a tree. She was hospitalized for several days.
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