Severe drought conditions continued to slowly expand across North Texas due to below-normal rainfall during November of 2017.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
Severe drought conditions continued to slowly expand across North Texas due to below-normal rainfall during November of 2017.
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 Nov 27, 11:52 PM CST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1152 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 .AVIATION... Mostly VFR conditions will prevail through 12z Wednesday. South winds at 12 to 15 knots tonight will increase to 15 to 25 knots by 16z Tuesday as an upper disturbance moves across the Southern Plains. The southerly winds will tap some Gulf moisture, but it looks like most, if not all, of the morning stratus will be west of the TAF sites. Will monitor this and may have to add a TEMPO group for some MVFR stratus if needed. A cold front is expected to move through the Metroplex and Waco TAF sites between 08z and 10z Wednesday bringing a wind shift to the west and northwest at 12 to 15 knots. 58 && .SHORT TERM... /Issued 338 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017/ /Through tonight/ Surface pressure falls ahead of a strong shortwave trough currently over southern Nevada have resulted in tightening of the pressure gradient across North Texas. Southerly winds have increased to 15 to 20 mph across the region and the stronger winds will likely continue through the overnight hours. The disturbance will approach the Texas Panhandle late tonight into Tuesday morning. Strong low level warm advection will continue through the overnight hours and will likely result in low temperatures 5 to 8 degrees warmer than this morning. Despite the strong southerly flow, moisture across the western Gulf of Mexico is marginal. Some areas of stratus may develop late tonight with trajectories taking any cloud cover mainly west of I-35. No precipitation is expected tonight. Dunn && .LONG TERM... /Issued 338 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017/ A fast-moving shortwave will race out of the Rockies on Tuesday. This will intensify the flow in the low-levels, improving the quality of the moisture within the boundary layer. However, this feature will also assure a marked westerly component in the 850- 700mb flow, keeping the layer well capped. As the disturbance swings through Oklahoma Tuesday night, it will tug a cold front into North Texas. The main forcing will remain well to our north, across Oklahoma and Arkansas, but the frontal boundary may be able to squeeze a shower out of the better moisture in areas east of the I-35 corridor Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Even the guidance that is typically inclined to generate such precipitation is unimpressed with this scenario. Unfortunately for our drought- plagued region, that will have to suffice for rain chances for the week. The fall season (September-November), climatologically wetter than its summer and winter bookends, has been among the driest on record for much of North and Central Texas. Cooler air will filter into the region on Wednesday with a reinforcing front arriving on Thursday. But as with Saturday's front, the weak cold advection will be largely offset by insolation into the dry air. Temperatures will be cooler Wednesday through Friday than the preceding 3 days, but highs will still be above normal through the period. Southerly flow will return to the region this weekend, and high temperatures will reach the 70s both Saturday and Sunday. Normal high temperatures for early December range from the mid 50s to mid 60s. These southerly winds will also gradually reintroduce Gulf moisture. Extended guidance favors troughing across the West early next week, which may help this moisture to be realized as rainfall. But with significant inter-model discrepancies and considerable spread among ensemble members with the pattern upstream, our confidence remains guarded with respect to rain chances. 25 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 55 75 51 66 48 / 0 5 10 5 0 Waco 53 76 49 69 43 / 0 5 10 5 0 Paris 48 71 50 66 46 / 0 5 20 10 10 Denton 54 74 47 64 42 / 0 5 10 5 0 McKinney 52 73 50 66 44 / 0 5 20 10 5 Dallas 56 75 52 67 49 / 0 5 10 5 5 Terrell 51 74 51 67 46 / 0 0 20 10 5 Corsicana 53 75 51 68 49 / 0 0 10 10 5 Temple 52 75 49 71 45 / 0 5 10 5 0 Mineral Wells 56 75 45 65 41 / 0 5 10 5 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 58/24
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1023 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281200- 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- 1023 PM CST Mon Nov 27 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought conditions developed across Hopkins county during the last few days of November 2017.
Severe drought conditions developed across Rains county during the last few days of November 2017.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2017Every state in 2017This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2017
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: 727736, 727737.