A weak cold front pushed south across the Red River Tuesday Night and was accompanied by a broken line of showers and storms as it encroached on the Interstate 20 corridor early Wednesday morning. As a cluster of storms moved across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, lightning struck and set fire to an apartment complex in Irving, damaging 16 units.
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A weak cold front pushed south across the Red River Tuesday Night and was accompanied by a broken line of showers and storms as it encroached on the Interstate 20 corridor early Wednesday morning. As a cluster of storms moved across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, lightning struck and set fire to an apartment complex in Irving, damaging 16 units.
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 9, 2:25 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 325 AM CDT WED SEP 9 2015 .DISCUSSION... THE FIRST OF TWO SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES IS CURRENTLY MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION WITH A COMPLEX OF SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE I20/30 CORRIDORS. THE SECOND SHORTWAVE WAS NOT FAR BEHIND THE FIRST AND MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS NEAR AMARILLO. WITH A WEAK SUBSIDENCE INVERSION NOTED ON THIS PAST EVENING/S FWD SOUNDING...LAPSE RATES WERE ONLY HOVERING AROUND 6 DEG/C WITH SKINNY SBCAPE VALUES AROUND 500 J/KG OR SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN SOME AREAS. AS A RESULT...WE EXPECT ONLY SUB-SEVERE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY AND DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY STRONG TO SEVERE WEATHER THIS MORNING. AN ILL-DEFINED SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM BETWEEN MIDLAND AND LUBBOCK...TO NEAR WICHITA FALLS...TO TULSA OKLAHOMA... THOUGH THERE WERE SIGNS OF STORM OUTFLOW 15-20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30-35 MPH WITH THIS ACTIVITY WITH THE LATENT SURFACE INSTABILITY IN ADVANCE OF THE COMPLEX. TIMING CHALLENGES WILL BE TWO-FOLD TODAY WITH THE TWO SEPARATE SYSTEMS. OUR FIRST CONCERN REGARDING IMPACTS WILL BE TIMING OF THE CURRENT SHORTWAVE...ASSOCIATED COMPLEX OF SHOWERS/STORMS AND LEAD OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. THE SECOND CONCERN IS THE UPSTREAM SHORTWAVE AND TRUE SURFACE COLD FRONT FURTHER TO THE NORTHWEST. THE LATTER FEATURES ARE ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG THE WEAK COLD FRONT FROM QUANAH TX BACK NORTHEAST TO LAWTON AND PAUL/S VALLEY OK. THIS HAS MADE TODAY INTO THIS EVENING QUITE CHALLENGING REGARDING THE SURFACE BOUNDARIES AND ASSOCIATED CONVECTION. MODELS DON/T SEEM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN SOME INSTANCES SO THE FORECAST WAS MADE MORE OFF REAL-TIME DATA AND RECOGNITION WHILE USING MOSTLY THE NAM...HRRR/RUC...AND TTU WRF MODELS BEYOND 6-12 HRS. PER CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS...HAVE ADJUSTED PREVIOUS HIGHEST POPS A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS EXTENDING BACK NORTH TO THE I-20 CORRIDOR THIS MORNING. WITH THE TRUE SURFACE COLD FRONT AND SECOND SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCE UPSTREAM... WILL SHIFT THE HIGHEST CHANCES ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS WITH LOWER CHANCES FROM I-20 TO THE RED RIVER VALLEY. THE COLD FRONT BY THIS EVENING MAY STILL LINGER AROUND OR JUST NORTH OF I-20...SO HAVE MAINTAINED LOW POPS ANYWHERE AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS EVENING...WITH A LITTLE HIGHER CHANCES CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS WHERE ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL BE MORE PLENTIFUL WITH RESIDUAL WEAK LIFT CONTINUING. THE WEAK AND ILL-DEFINED COLD FRONT WILL LINGER NEAR I-20 WEDNESDAY NIGHT BEFORE SHIFTING SOUTH INTO CENTRAL TEXAS ON THURSDAY. AN UPPER TROUGH OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DEEPENS ON FRIDAY AND DRIVES A SHORTWAVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE OZARKS. ASSOCIATED HEIGHT FALLS TO OUR NORTHEAST WILL HELP PULL THE OLD FRONT BACK NORTH INTO SOUTHERN OK ON FRIDAY. WITH THE AREA BRIEFLY IN A MORE UNSTABLE WARM SECTOR...WILL MAINTAIN LOW CONVECTIVE CHANCES ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES INTO THURSDAY NIGHT...THEN ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA ON FRIDAY. A STRONGER COLD FRONT ARRIVES INTO NORTH TEXAS LATE FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. THIS FRONT WILL HAVE A COOLER AND DRIER AIRMASS BEHIND IT THAN THE FIRST. ONCE THIS FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA EARLY SATURDAY...RAIN CHANCES WILL COME TO AN END IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND. PLEASANTLY COOL LOW TEMPERATURES FROM THE UPPER 50S-MID 60S ARE EXPECTED EACH MORNING WITH HIGHS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S. FLOW IN THE MID TO UPPER LEVELS WILL DAMPEN WITH THE STRONG EASTERN CONUS UPPER TROUGH PULLING AWAY. HEIGHT RISES WILL OCCUR GRADUALLY... THUS THE WARM UP IS ONLY EXPECTED TO BE GRADUAL AND BACK INTO UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S. A WESTERN GULF DISTURBANCE WILL LEND TO SOME DIURNAL LOW CONVECTIVE CHANCES EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FAR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AT TIMES NEXT WEEK. IT/S REALLY HARD TO SAY IF THE WESTERN GULF DISTURBANCE WILL HAVE ANY WARM-CORE/TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS...BUT CERTAINLY BEARS WATCHING AS IT HOVERS NEAR THE TX/LA COASTLINES MUCH OF THE WEEK. 05/ && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1144 PM CDT TUE SEP 8 2015/ /06Z TAFS/ PRIMARY CONCERN...THUNDERSTORM TIMING. A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY CROSS THE RED RIVER DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. ELEVATED SHOWERS (BASED AROUND FL100) WILL PERSIST IN ADVANCE OF THE BOUNDARY. AS THE FRONT APPROACHES METROPLEX TAF SITES...THESE CONVECTIVE ELEMENTS MAY BE ABLE TO TAP MORE UNSTABLE AIR AROUND FL050. THE RESULTING DEEP UPDRAFTS MAY BE SUPPORTIVE OF THUNDER DURING THE MORNING PUSH. A SHIFT TO NORTH WINDS SHOULD ACCOMPANY THE ACTIVITY...BUT A COMPLETE FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL LIKELY REQUIRE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION AND RESULTING COLD POOL PROPAGATION. WITH THE 06Z TAFS...WILL MAINTAIN N/NE FLOW THROUGHOUT THE DAYLIGHT HOURS...BUT WINDS WILL LIKELY DIMINISH OR REVERSE DIRECTION LATE IN THE DAY. FOR WACO...THE PRIMARY WINDOW FOR THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS WILL BE MIDDAY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. MORNING CLOUDS/SHOWERS MAY LIMIT INSTABILITY...BUT THUNDER IS EXPECTED. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 88 75 91 74 92 / 60 20 5 5 20 WACO, TX 90 74 92 72 92 / 70 30 20 10 20 PARIS, TX 85 71 90 70 89 / 70 10 10 10 30 DENTON, TX 88 71 92 72 91 / 50 10 5 5 20 MCKINNEY, TX 86 71 91 71 91 / 60 10 5 5 20 DALLAS, TX 88 76 92 74 91 / 60 20 10 5 20 TERRELL, TX 86 72 90 71 91 / 70 20 10 10 20 CORSICANA, TX 89 74 91 71 90 / 70 20 20 20 20 TEMPLE, TX 91 75 91 72 92 / 60 40 30 10 20 MINERAL WELLS, TX 88 71 92 69 91 / 50 10 0 5 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 316 AM CDT WED SEP 9 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-100900- 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- 316 AM CDT WED SEP 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY INTO TONIGHT WITH THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS SHIFTING SOUTH THROUGH THE DAY. BRIEF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS ON FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A CAMERON TO PALESTINE LINE ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DUNN
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:54 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A complex of thunderstorms rolled across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex early morning on Wednesday September 9th. Lightning from one storm struck an apartment complex, setting fire to it and damaging 16 units. No injuries were reported, but 27 people were displaced.
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