A squall line that formed in the Texas Panhandle moved east into North Central Texas producing a few instances of severe weather to the northwest and west of the DFW Metroplex.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
A squall line that formed in the Texas Panhandle moved east into North Central Texas producing a few instances of severe weather to the northwest and west of the DFW Metroplex.
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 Apr 19, 9:07 PM CST, 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1007 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2016 .UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED FORECAST TO INCLUDE SEVERE TSTORM WATCH 98 THROUGH 3 A.M FOR AREAS JUST WEST-NORTH OF DFW. CLUSTERS OF STRONG-SEVERE STORMS ARE NOW MOVING INTO OUR FAR NW COUNTIES. THIS ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY MORPH INTO A SQUALL LINE OVERNIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HRS. INSTABILITY DOES TEND TO BE LESS SOUTHEAST OF THE WATCH AREA...BUT ISOLATED SEVERE WINDS AND HAIL CANNOT BE RULED OUT THROUGH ABOUT SUNRISE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA. THE LINEAR COMPLEX IS SHOWN TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES INTO CENTRAL TEXAS JUST BEFORE SUNRISE DUE TO VEERING AND WEAKENING OF THE NOCTURNAL LOW LEVEL JET. WATCH AND UPDATED FORECAST ALREADY ISSUED. 05/ && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 639 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2016/ /00Z TAFS/ CONCERNS...LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH OVERNIGHT WITH MVFR CIGS PERSISTING FOR A FEW HOURS AFTER THE RAIN. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING WITH LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS. MVFR CIGS WITH BASES BETWEEN 1-2 KFT ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO KACT AROUND 06Z. A LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL OVERNIGHT BUT THE THUNDER THREAT MAY BE LOWER AT KACT AS THE LINE MAY BE WEAKENING AS IT MOVES INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. WILL PREVAIL -TSRA AT THE DFW METROPLEX AIRPORTS FROM 08-10Z AND WILL PREVAIL -SHRA VCTS AT KACT FROM 09-11Z. THE TIMING OF THE STORMS MAY BE ADJUSTED BY AN HOUR EACH DIRECTION DEPENDING ON THE SPEED OF THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST. BEHIND THE LINE OF SHOWERS/STORMS...MVFR CIGS WILL PERSIST THROUGH ABOUT MID MORNING. VFR CIGS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE VALID TAF PERIOD BUT CONFIDENCE IN CIG TRENDS WEDNESDAY MORNING IS LOW AND MAY BE ADJUSTED WITH FUTURE TAF ISSUANCES. THE WINDS AT DFW WILL LIKELY BECOME LIGHT NORTHWESTERLY OR NORTHERLY BEHIND THE LINE OF STORMS. THE WINDS AT KACT MAY ALSO BRIEFLY BECOME LIGHT NORTHWESTERLY OR NORTHERLY BEHIND THE RAIN BUT WILL PREVAIL LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. LIGHT SOUTH WINDS WILL RETURN ACROSS THE REGION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND/OR EVENING. JLDUNN && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 352 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2016/ AFTERNOON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A LARGE UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER THE WESTERN U.S. THE NEXT EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE ROTATING AROUND THE LOW IS SWINGING THROUGH NEW MEXICO AND INTO WEST TEXAS AT THIS HOUR. THIS IS SPREADING A BROAD AREA OF ASCENT ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS LOCATED ACROSS THE PANHANDLE WHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED AIDED BY THE FORCING ALOFT. ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...THINGS REMAIN QUIET FOR THE TIME BEING. SURFACE WINDS HAVE BEEN LIGHT WITH ONLY WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE NOTED IN THE WIND FIELDS. SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS HAVE OCCURRED MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 BUT A GENERAL LACK OF FOCUS FOR ANY CONVECTION HAS LEFT THE AREA PRECIPITATION FREE THIS AFTERNOON. AS WE HEAD INTO THIS EVENING...THE EASTWARD MOVING TROUGH WILL SPREAD ASCENT INTO NORTH TEXAS. LATEST OBJECTIVE SURFACE ANALYSIS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS INDICATES TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S ACROSS OUR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. THIS YIELDS SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY OF 1000-1500 J/KG. THIS INSTABILITY HAS SLOWLY BEEN CREEPING NORTHWARD THROUGH THE DAY MOSTLY IN RESPONSE TO HEATING BUT ALSO AS BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE GETS PULLED NORTHWARD. WEAK SURFACE PRESSURE FALLS NOTED OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS IN RESPONSE TO THE APPROACHING TROUGH SHOULD ALLOW SLIGHTLY STRONGER EAST-SOUTHEAST FLOW TO BECOME ESTABLISHED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN DEWPOINTS AND SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY INCREASING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. LATEST HIGH-RESOLUTION CONVECTION-ALLOWING MODELS CONGEAL THE CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST TEXAS INTO A SMALL COMPLEX LATE TONIGHT AND MOVE IT SOUTHEAST INTO NORTH TEXAS PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT. GIVEN THE RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE HIGH-RES GUIDANCE AND THE FACT THAT THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD REMAIN UNDISTURBED THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...HAVE RAISED POPS SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. CONCERNING SEVERE POTENTIAL TONIGHT... THINK WIDESPREAD SEVERE POTENTIAL IS LOW...HOWEVER THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS. RIGHT NOW THE LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR PROFILE IS WEAK...HOWEVER AS WE GET INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS THE 850MB FLOW IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN TO 25 TO 30 KT AND NEAR SURFACE WINDS WILL BACK AND INCREASE AHEAD OF THE LINE OF CONVECTION. RAP SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT LOW LEVEL HODOGRAPHS WILL CURVE AND ENLARGE THROUGH THE LOWEST 2KM RIGHT AROUND MIDNIGHT. NORMALLY THIS TIME OF NIGHT WOULD NOT BE A BIG CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER AS SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY WOULD BE LIMITED OR UNAVAILABLE DUE TO INCREASING INHIBITION. HOWEVER TONIGHT...MOST OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN UNCAPPED AS THE LINE APPROACHES. THIS SHOULD ALLOW THE LINE OF STORMS TO CONTINUE INTO THE AXIS OF INSTABILITY... BEING ASSISTED BY FORCING FROM THE UPPER TROUGH. IT ALSO SHOULD SUPPORT SURFACE BASED PARCELS BEING LIFTED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE LINE. IF THAT IS THE CASE AND THE CONVECTION IS SURFACE BASED...THERE WOULD BE A LOCALIZED WIND DAMAGE AND ISOLATED TORNADO THREAT WITH ANY BOWING LINE SEGMENTS. THE OVERALL HAIL THREAT APPEARS LOW...ALTHOUGH ANY ISOLATED CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS AHEAD OF THE LINE...ESPECIALLY WEST OF I-35 COULD PRODUCE HAIL. CONCERNING FLOODING POTENTIAL TONIGHT... THE LINE OF STORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH RATHER QUICKLY...WITH ONLY LIMITED POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING IN ANY GIVEN AREA. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN AREAS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED FLOODING RECENTLY COULD SEE SOME ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS BUT THINK THE OVERALL FLASH FLOOD THREAT IS LOW SO WILL NOT ISSUE A WATCH AT THIS TIME. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY. AFTER IT CLEARS OUR EAST/SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...MOST OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN DRY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DIVES SOUTH THROUGH THE PLAINS TOMORROW NIGHT AND IT APPEARS THAT ONE FINAL COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER DURING THIS TIME. ONCE WE GET THROUGH THURSDAY...WE SHOULD HAVE A COUPLE OF DAYS OF NICE WEATHER BEFORE THINGS RAMP UP AGAIN DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEKEND AND THROUGH NEXT WEEK. THE UPPER PATTERN REMAINS PROGRESSIVE AND THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT WE WILL BE DEALING WITH MULTIPLE DAYS OF DRYLINE CONVECTION THROUGH NEXT WEEK. DUNN && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH 63 79 63 77 57 / 90 30 50 60 5 WACO 62 77 62 77 57 / 70 50 40 50 10 PARIS 63 75 59 74 54 / 90 50 40 50 5 DENTON 57 76 59 74 54 / 90 30 60 60 5 MCKINNEY 60 76 59 75 54 / 90 40 50 60 5 DALLAS 64 79 64 77 58 / 90 40 50 60 5 TERRELL 62 76 63 76 56 / 80 50 40 60 10 CORSICANA 67 77 65 78 58 / 60 70 40 50 10 TEMPLE 66 76 64 78 58 / 60 60 40 50 20 MINERAL WELLS 56 77 59 76 53 / 90 20 60 60 5 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 82/05
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1016 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2016 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201200- 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- 1016 PM CDT TUE APR 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE PROGRESSIVELY SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...ESPECIALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO GLEN ROSE...TO DECATUR...TO GAINESVILLE THROUGH 3 AM CDT. THOUGH A BRIEF TORNADO EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LINE CANNOT BE RULED OUT...THE THREAT WILL BE LOW. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL TEXAS TOWARD SUNRISE AND SHOULD GRADUALLY WEAKEN. HOWEVER...STRONG STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE. DURATION OF RAINFALL AT ANY ONE LOCATION SHOULD BE LIMITED AND PRECLUDE WIDESPREAD FLOODING. HOWEVER...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY AGGRAVATE ONGOING TRIBUTARY FLOODING CONCERNS ALONG THE BRAZOS AND TRINITY RIVER BASINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE STORMS ONGOING AT DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY MORNING WILL AFFECT AREAS MAINLY EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR...ENDING BEFORE MIDDAY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH THE STORMS DURING THE MORNING HOURS. SOME REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN AREAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTHWEST OF THE REGION LATE WEDNESDAY AND MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS ACTIVITY AS WELL...ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN. AFTER A FEW QUIET DAYS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO GLEN ROSE...TO DECATUR...TO GAINESVILLE THROUGH 3 AM CDT.
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:51 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm winds knocked down and split trees on Crenshaw and Crain Road to the north of Belcherville.
Nickel sized hail was reported 2 miles northeast of Lake Amon Carter.
Wind blown hail broke windows in a home approximately 5 miles south of Bowie. The hail may have been up to the size of ping pong balls.
Ping pong ball sized hail was reported south of Bowie.
A 60 mph wind gust was reported in Forestburg.
The Cooke County emergency manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down near Interstate 35 and Farm to Market Road 922. Some trees were on homes, and some trees were blocking roads. A stand along semi-trailor was flipped on its side. Winds estimated between 60 and 70 mph.
The Cooke County Emergency manager reported wind gusts estimated between 55 and 65 mph, along with nickel sized hail. Damage to several trees was reported from the wind.
Trained spotters reported nickel to quarter sized hail just east of Interstate 35 in Valley View.
A trained spotter reported 60 MPH winds in Valley View, TX.
A large tree limb fell on the roof of an apartment complex on Vine Street in Weatherford. The limb damaged the roof resulting in the evacuation of about 14 residents from the complex. Water also damaged the interior of the apartment units.
Approximately 10 homes on East Lake Drive on the east side of Lake Weatherford were damaged by straight line thunderstorm winds. Tree limbs fell on roads, vehicles, campers, and homes. One shed was crushed by falling tree limbs and other debris. The roof of at least one home was partially removed.
Lightning started a fire at an unoccupied home on Captain Lane in Fort Worth (near Saginaw). The home was still under construction at the time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2016
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: 630204, 630196, 630197, 632162, 630205, 630207, 630208, 630337, 630334, 630336, 630392, 632042, 631052, 631051, 631050.