Two people died in Tarrant County after their vehicle lost control on a patch of ice and fell into a very cold creek. Another occupant was injured.
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Two people died in Tarrant County after their vehicle lost control on a patch of ice and fell into a very cold creek. Another occupant was injured.
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 Feb 28, 6:54 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 654 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 .UPDATE... AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE CONTINUE THIS EVENING AND THE TREND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AREAS WHERE TEMPERATURES ARE JUST BELOW 32 DEGREES COULD SEE SOME ADDITIONAL VERY LIGHT ICING OVERNIGHT. THIS IS MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE CWA WHERE THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. LOW LEVEL JET OF 35-40KTS WILL ENHANCE LIFT PRIMARILY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS SO WILL HAVE LIKELY POPS IN THOSE AREAS...ALTHOUGH AMOUNTS WILL STILL GENERALLY BE LIGHT. TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY AT OR ABOVE FREEZING IN MOST OF THOSE AREAS...SO NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ARE EXPECTED. AS FAR AS SHORT TERM IMPACTS...MOST TRAVEL IMPACTS WILL BE RELATED TO ONGOING AREAS OF ICE/SLUSH ON AREA ROADS THAT DID NOT MELT DURING THE DAY AND NOT ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR TEMPERATURES OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS FOR ANY ADDITIONAL EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT ADVISORY. DUNN && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 557 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015/ /00Z TAFS/ CHALLENGES WILL CONTINUE TO BE TIMING -FZRA/-FZDZ TO -RA/-DZ THIS EVENING ACROSS THE DFW METRO AIRPORTS...AS TEMPERATURES VARY FROM 30-32F. IN ADDITION...TIMING CIGS FROM IFR TO LIFR/OR POSSIBLY VLIFR/AND VSBYS DOWN FROM MVFR TO IFR WILL BE TRICKY. WE CURRENTLY ARE STILL AWAITING OUR 00Z FWD SOUNDING...BUT THE 12Z FWD SOUNDING ALREADY SHOWED WAA AROUND 850MB IN FULL SWING WELL IN ADVANCE OF STRONG UPPER TROUGH DIGGING OVER NV/CA/AZ THIS EVENING. HAVE DECIDED TO EXTEND -FZRA/-FZDZ WORDING AT METRO AIRPORTS TIL 02Z WITH AFOREMENTIONED TEMPS. HOWEVER...ANY LIGHT PRECIPITATION SHOULD NOT AGGREGATE ON AIRCRAFT IN ANY EXTREME MANNER WITH TEMPS HOVERING AT THE FREEZING POINT. WE EXPECT SURFACE TEMPS TO SLOWLY MODIFY ABOVE FREEZING THROUGH MIDNIGHT WITH THE STRENGTHEN WAA AND WINDS ABOVE THE SHALLOW ARCTIC FRONTAL INVERSION. WINDS WILL REMAIN N/NE LESS THAN 10 KTS THROUGHOUT...SO ANY WARM UP WILL BE VERY SLOW WITH PRECIPITATION FALLING INTO THE COLD LAYER AND SNOW PACK STILL ON THE GROUND. WILL PREVAIL IFR THROUGH LATE EVENING...THEN LIFR/VLIFR THROUGH MIDDAY SUNDAY... BACK TO IFR SUN AFTERNOON. WACO REGIONAL WILL HAVE SIMILAR TRENDS JUST SANS THE FREEZING PRECIP WHICH TEMPS ABOVE FREEZING NOW. 05/ && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 345 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015/ TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR STEADY OR SLOWLY WARM TONIGHT WITH THE FREEZING LINE AT SUNSET ROUGHLY FROM GOLDTHWAITE TO WEATHERFORD TO GAINESVILLE. WE EXPECT PERIODS OF LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE IN LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF THE FREEZING LINE WITH PERIODS OF MAINLY DRIZZLE OR VERY LIGHT RAIN ELSEWHERE. WE HAVE DECIDED TO EXTEND THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE TO WEATHERFORD TO MINERAL WELLS AND LET THE CURRENT WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY EXPIRE AT 6 PM FOR ALL OTHER COUNTIES THAT CURRENTLY REMAIN IN THE ADVISORY. THE SNOW COVER TODAY HAS BEEN LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLOW WARMUP AS EVIDENT BY THE MORE RAPID WARMUP IN THE COUNTIES THAT SAW VERY LITTLE MEASURABLE WINTER PRECIPITATION. ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE NEGLIGIBLE OVERALL BUT THE ADDITION OF EVEN LIGHT ICING TO ALREADY ICY SPOTS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE TRAVEL IMPACTS. WE EXPECT THAT ALL SITES WILL WARM TO FREEZING OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE OVERNIGHT AS THE SHALLOW ARCTIC AIRMASS CONTINUES TO SLOWLY MODIFY DUE TO RELATIVELY WARM PRECIPITATION FALLING THROUGH IT. TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING SHOULD BE ABOVE FREEZING WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW EXTREME NORTHWEST COUNTIES. STRONG LOW LEVEL WARM AIR ADVECTION WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SLOWLY MODIFYING ARCTIC AIRMASS TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE ALONG WITH OVERCAST SKIES AND SOME PATCHY FOG. HIGHS ON SUNDAY WILL BE GENERALLY IN THE 40S...EXCEPT FOR SOME UPPER 30S IN THE NORTH AND 50S IN THE SOUTH. A SECONDARY SURGE OF COOL AIR WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY NIGHT AS A SHORT WAVE ROTATES ACROSS THE UPPER MID WEST. TEMPERATURES SUNDAY NIGHT WILL COOL MAINLY INTO THE 30S AND 40S BUT SHOULD REMAIN ABOVE FREEZING. LIFT SUPPLIED BY THE COLD FRONT IN COMBINATION WITH SOME WEAK LARGE SCALE LIFT FROM AN APPROACHING PACIFIC TROUGH WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO THE ENTIRE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. THE UPPER TROUGH IN THE PACIFIC WILL DEEPEN NEAR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MONDAY NIGHT WHILE A SURFACE TROUGH DEEPENS ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS PATTERN WILL BRING A SURGE OF WARM AND MOIST AIR NORTHWARD INTO NORTH TEXAS MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL ALSO INCREASE AT THE SAME TIME DUE TO INCREASING LARGE SCALE LIFT AND THIS WILL RESULT IN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS WILL BE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY EVENING WHEN A PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. VERTICAL WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY EVENING. A STRONG COLD FRONT IS PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY NIGHT AND BRING MUCH COLDER AIR AND WINDY CONDITIONS. SINCE THE UPPER LOW WILL STILL BE WEST OF THE REGION AT THIS TIME...THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL FOR MORE WINTER WEATHER WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IT IS MUCH TOO EARLY TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS FROM THIS EVENT BUT FORECAST SOUNDINGS SUGGEST THAT SLEET WOULD BE THE PRIMARY PRECIPITATION TYPE AND IF MODEL QPF IS CORRECT...IT COULD BE MEASURABLE AND POSSIBLY SIGNIFICANT. ALL PRECIPITATION SHOULD END BY THURSDAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS PASSES TO THE EAST. WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD SET UP ACROSS NORTH TEXAS NEXT WEEKEND WITH SLOWLY WARMING TEMPS AND NO PRECIPITATION. 79 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 31 42 40 52 52 / 50 40 50 40 50 WACO, TX 33 46 43 55 55 / 50 40 50 40 40 PARIS, TX 34 42 38 41 41 / 60 50 60 50 50 DENTON, TX 31 41 39 47 47 / 40 40 50 40 50 MCKINNEY, TX 33 43 39 47 47 / 50 40 50 40 50 DALLAS, TX 32 48 44 52 52 / 50 40 50 40 50 TERRELL, TX 33 45 40 48 48 / 60 50 60 50 40 CORSICANA, TX 34 47 43 56 56 / 60 50 60 50 40 TEMPLE, TX 33 53 45 57 57 / 50 40 50 40 30 MINERAL WELLS, TX 31 42 34 47 47 / 40 30 40 40 50 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT FOR TXZ091- 092-100>102-115>117-129-130-141-142. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 343 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-012145- 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- 343 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CONTINUE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM SULPHUR SPRING TO ROCKWALL AND LAMPASAS THROUGH 6 PM...THEN NORTHWEST OF A GAINESVILLE TO GOLDTHWAITE LINE THIS EVENING UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A LIGHT GLAZE OF ICE IS POSSIBLE...MAINLY ON ELEVATED SURFACES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. AN AREA OF LIGHT SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER ARCTIC COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. ICE AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
350 PM CST SAT FEB 28 2015
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0238 PM SNOW DALLAS 32.77N 96.78W
02/28/2015 M2.50 INCH DALLAS TX PUBLIC
2.5 INCHES MEASURED ON A PARKED CAR.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Two people died in Fort Worth after their vehicle lost control on a patch of ice and fell into a very cold creek near Interstate 30 and Camp Bowie West. Another occupant was injured.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Weather, Tarrant | 2015-02-28 | 71 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
| Winter Weather, Tarrant | 2015-02-28 | 21 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Indirect |
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