Though most of the region was dry, enough moisture was in place across our southern-most counties to generate isolated convection during the peak heating hours of the afternoon on September 25. One storm produced wind damage at an apartment complex in Waco, TX.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Though most of the region was dry, enough moisture was in place across our southern-most counties to generate isolated convection during the peak heating hours of the afternoon on September 25. One storm produced wind damage at an apartment complex in Waco, TX.
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 Sep 25, 2:17 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 317 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015 .DISCUSSION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY THIS EVENING MAINLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS AS WEAK LARGE SCALE LIFT INTERACTS WITH SURFACE HEATING AND ADEQUATE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. MOISTURE AND LIFT WILL BE MORE LIMITED FARTHER NORTH...BUT AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR STORM WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE. ALL ACTIVITY SHOULD DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. EXPECT A QUIET NIGHT TONIGHT WITH DECREASING CLOUDS AND STEADILY FALLING TEMPERATURES. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE GENERALLY IN THE 60S...EXCEPT FOR A FEW LOWER 70S IN THE URBAN AREAS OF THE METROPLEX. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS AFTERNOON REVEALED A SHORTWAVE TROUGH ON THE NORTHWEST PERIPHERY OF A LARGER AREA OF LOW PRESSURE THAT ENCOMPASSES MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST CONUS. THIS SHORTWAVE WILL DROP SOUTH ACROSS KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA TONIGHT AND INTO THE LOW ROLLING PLAINS AND BIG COUNTRY OF TEXAS ON SATURDAY. LARGE SCALE LIFT AND AND SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE WILL RESULT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY. SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY MAY MOVE ACROSS THE WESTERN ZONES OF NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY BUT SHOULD EXIT THE REGION BY SATURDAY EVENING. OTHERWISE...SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY WITH HIGHS FROM THE MIDDLE 80S TO THE LOWER 90S AND LOWS IN THE 60S. DRY AIR WILL INCREASE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS ON SUNDAY AS THE SHORT WAVE MOVES TO DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND GETS ABSORBED INTO THE LARGER LOW PRESSURE AREA CENTERED ON THE TEXAS COAST. THE UPPER LOW IS PROGGED TO DEEPEN OVER THE TEXAS COAST MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AND THIS WILL ALLOW MOISTURE TO INCREASE ACROSS EAST AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THE INCREASE IN MOISTURE AND WEAK LARGE SCALE ASCENT OVER THE REGION WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THEREFORE WILL CARRY SOME 20 AND 30 POPS ACROSS THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST ZONES MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL FINALLY SHIFT TO THE EAST TUESDAY NIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THIS WILL RESULT IN DECREASING RAIN CHANCES WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ALONG WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. BOTH THE ECMWF AND GFS SOLUTIONS BRING AN UPPER TROUGH INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS FRIDAY NIGHT AND A COLD FRONT INTO NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY. BOTH MODELS ARE NOT TOO EXCITED ABOUT WIDESPREAD PRECIP AT THIS POINT IN TIME. 79 && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1135 AM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015/ VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED AT ALL TAF SITES THROUGH 00Z SUNDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SOUTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR TODAY...BUT THE CHANCES AT WACO ARE TOO LOW TO INCLUDE IN THE KACT TAF. THERE WILL BE A FEW TO SCATTERED MID AND UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS. WINDS WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 8 KNOTS. 78.JG && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 68 90 68 90 69 / 0 5 5 5 0 WACO, TX 64 92 64 91 67 / 10 5 5 5 5 PARIS, TX 64 90 62 87 65 / 0 5 5 5 0 DENTON, TX 64 89 65 89 66 / 5 10 5 5 0 MCKINNEY, TX 63 90 63 88 66 / 0 5 5 5 0 DALLAS, TX 70 91 69 90 71 / 0 5 5 5 0 TERRELL, TX 65 90 63 90 67 / 0 5 5 5 0 CORSICANA, TX 66 91 65 91 68 / 5 5 5 5 10 TEMPLE, TX 65 92 65 90 67 / 10 5 5 5 5 MINERAL WELLS, TX 63 91 64 89 64 / 10 10 5 5 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 75/79
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 315 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261230- 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- 315 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON MAINLY SOUTH OF I-20. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING GENERALLY WEST OF A BOWIE TO LAMPASAS LINE. ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR SOUTHEAST OF A LAMPASAS TO HILLSBORO TO ATHENS LINE ON MONDAY...AND THEN SOUTHEAST OF A LAMPASAS TO FORT WORTH TO BONHAM LINE ON TUESDAY. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015
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0350 PM TSTM WND DMG WACO 31.55N 97.15W
09/25/2015 MCLENNAN TX PUBLIC
MICROBURST WITH ESTIMATED 50 MPH WINDS CAUSING DAMAGE TO
APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR 34TH AND WACO DR.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015
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0200 PM TSTM WND DMG WACO 31.55N 97.15W
09/25/2015 MCLENNAN TX PUBLIC
MICROBURST WITH ESTIMATED 50 MPH WINDS CAUSING DAMAGE TO
APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR 34TH AND WACO DR.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...FINAL CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 2015
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0211 PM TSTM WND DMG WACO 31.55N 97.15W
09/25/2015 MCLENNAN TX PUBLIC
MICROBURST WITH ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS CAUSED
DAMAGE TO AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR 34TH AND WACO DR. NO
INJURIES REPORTED.The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:08 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A microburst generated by an isolated thunderstorm produced strong winds which tore off part of a roof, exposing 3 apartments at the Car Mel apartment complex in Waco, TX.
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