Localized heavy rainfall produced isolated flooding across a few of the southern-most counties north Texas.
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Localized heavy rainfall produced isolated flooding across a few of the southern-most counties north Texas.
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 Mar 9, 9:58 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1058 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2015 .UPDATE... COOL...MOIST AIR AT THE SURFACE CONTINUES TO ADVECT IN FROM THE NORTHEAST DUE TO BACKING LOW LEVEL FLOW ASSOCIATED WITH A STRENGTHENING TROUGH ALONG THE TEXAS COAST. WARM/MOIST AIR ADVECTION ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO OVERRIDE THE COOLER AIRMASS NEAR THE SURFACE AHEAD OF AN UPPER TROUGH OVER MEXICO. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...WHICH SHOULD NOT END UNTIL THE SYSTEM TO OUR WEST MIGRATES EAST OF NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. THE HIGHEST MOISTURE VALUES STILL REMAIN OVER THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...WHERE PWATS IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AND A QUARTER RESIDE. THIS COULD PRODUCE SOME LOCALLY HIGHER RAINFALL TOTALS...AND WE WILL MAINTAIN THE FLOOD WATCH FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A KILLEEN TO PALESTINE LINE THROUGH 1 AM TUESDAY. THE ONLY REAL CHANGE FOR THIS UPDATE WAS TO LOWER MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES BY A COUPLE OF DEGREES BASED ON RECENT TRENDS AND UPDATED GUIDANCE. 30 && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 715 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2015/ /12Z TAFS/ CONCERNS...LIFR CEILINGS...RAIN WITH RESTRICTIONS TO VISIBILITY. A TROPICAL PLUME CONTINUES SPREADING HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE BULK OF THIS PRECIPITATION WILL REMAIN SOUTHEAST OF TAF SITES TODAY...BUT WITH EASTERLY AND NORTHEASTERLY FLOW THROUGHOUT THE DAY...LIFR CEILINGS WILL PREVAIL WITH INTERMITTENT LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE. VARIABLE VISIBILITY WILL GENERALLY BE NEAR THE IFR/MVFR BOUNDARY. AS THE CONVEYOR BELT SHIFTS INTO LOUISIANA THIS EVENING...DRAGGING A COASTAL TROUGH WITH IT...WINDS WILL BACK FURTHER TO THE NORTH. VISIBILITIES WILL IMPROVE WITH THE CESSATION OF PRECIP. BUT DESPITE THE LOSS OF ANY UPSLOPE COMPONENT IN THE SURFACE WINDS... THE CONTINUED ADVECTION OF COOL/MOIST AIR IN THE LOW-LEVELS WILL SLOW THE LIFTING OF CEILINGS. IT WILL LIKELY TAKE UNTIL MID- MORNING TUESDAY FOR MVFR CEILINGS TO RETURN. 25 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 410 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2015/ A SHORT WAVE TROUGH WILL ROTATE ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS TODAY AND BRING NUMEROUS SHOWERS TO THE ENTIRE REGION. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL EXTEND FROM THE SOUTHERN ZONES OF NORTH TEXAS TO THE TEXAS COAST WHERE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL BE IN EXCESS OF 1.25 INCHES. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES WILL AVERAGE BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES WITH SOME HIGHER TOTALS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST ZONES. TOTALS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS WILL BE GENERALLY LESS THAN 1 INCH. WE WILL LEAVE THE FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR LOCATIONS SOUTHEAST OF A KILLEEN TO PALESTINE LINE. SURFACE WINDS THIS MORNING WILL BE GENERALLY FROM THE EAST BUT WILL TURN TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST THROUGH THE DAY AS A COASTAL LOW DEEPENS. AS THE WIND TURNS TO THE NORTH...SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION. THE COMBINATION OF DRIER AIR AND THE DEPARTING SHORT WAVE WILL BRING AN END TO MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION OVERNIGHT. A FEW SHOWERS MAY LINGER ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES EARLY TUESDAY. A DEEP SOUTHERN BRANCH TROUGH WILL REMAIN ORIENTED JUST WEST OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY WHICH SHOULD KEEP NORTH TEXAS IN A ZONE OF NEUTRAL LARGE SCALE FORCING. A CLOSED LOW IS PROGGED TO DEVELOP LATE IN THE WEEK AS A SHORT WAVE FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST MERGES WITH THE SOUTHERN BRANCH TROUGH. THIS CLOSED LOW IS FORECAST BY THE MODELS TO DEEPEN ACROSS WESTERN MEXICO ON THE WEEKEND. NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN IN A REGION OF WEAK LARGE SCALE FORCING UNTIL THIS SYSTEM FINALLY LIFTS NORTHEAST WHICH MAY NOT HAPPEN UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. WHEN IT DOES FINALLY LIFT NORTH IT SHOULD BRING INCREASING RAIN CHANCES WITH IT. NORTHERLY SURFACE WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE REMAINS NEAR THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THIS SURFACE PATTERN WILL KEEP LOW LEVEL GULF MOISTURE CUT OFF FROM NORTH TEXAS. THE COMBINATION OF WEAK OR NO LARGE SCALE FORCING FOR ASCENT AND RELATIVELY DRY AIR SHOULD KEEP RAIN CHANCES AT A MINIMUM ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL BE MAINLY IN THE LOWER 50S DUE TO EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND EXPECTED RAINFALL. TEMPERATURES THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK THROUGH THE WEEKEND SHOULD BE WARMER WITH HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE 60S TO AROUND 70. OVERNIGHT LOWS THROUGH THE WEEKEND WILL BE GENERALLY IN THE 40S. 79 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 52 46 65 49 73 / 90 50 10 5 5 WACO, TX 52 47 65 46 71 / 100 40 10 5 10 PARIS, TX 49 44 61 47 68 / 90 60 20 10 10 DENTON, TX 51 45 64 44 71 / 90 50 10 5 5 MCKINNEY, TX 51 45 65 45 69 / 90 50 10 5 5 DALLAS, TX 54 46 65 51 72 / 90 50 10 5 5 TERRELL, TX 52 47 63 47 70 / 90 50 10 5 10 CORSICANA, TX 52 49 64 50 70 / 100 50 20 5 10 TEMPLE, TX 52 47 63 48 70 / 100 40 10 5 10 MINERAL WELLS, TX 53 44 61 43 74 / 90 30 10 5 5 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR TXZ147-148-158-160>162-174- 175. && 58/30
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 812 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101100- 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- 812 AM CDT MON MAR 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM TONIGHT FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM KILLEEN...TO MEXIA...TO PALESTINE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS...WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 25
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A social media report stated that U.S Hwy 84 in Freestone County had water over the roadway at the railroad overpass.
A social media report stated that FM 908 south of U.S. 77 was closed due to flooding.
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: 568196, 568199.