Severe to extreme drought conditions improved significantly for all four counties by the end of the month after receiving beneficial rainfall.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 to extreme drought conditions improved significantly for all four counties by the end of the month after receiving beneficial rainfall.
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 Oct 31, 10:43 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1143 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019 .AVIATION... /06Z TAFs/ Concerns -- Minimal. Weak FROPA late Friday evening. All TAF sites are now VFR with south flow as high pressure slides off to the east. Skies will be SKC to FEW all day Friday...with south flow continuing through the day. Late Friday evening...a weak cold front will move into North Texas...reaching Metroplex terminals around 0400Z. This front will be marked by a wind shift out of the NE...though winds will remain relatively light. The front will eventually make it to KACT...but a little beyond the TAF period. 37 && .UPDATE... /Issued 1010 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019/ /Rest of Tonight/ A cold, clear, and calm Halloween night across North and Central Texas as high pressure settles in to the Southern Plains. Temperatures have already fallen into the 30s across most of our county warning area, except in the urban core of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Area where temperatures are still in the lower 40s. A few spots are even already below freezing. Most notably, Denton is already down to 31 F and Graham is down to 30 F. Overnight lows have been bumped down a few degrees across the board (particularly in rural areas), and another freeze is expected tonight across the entire area. Other than the cold weather though, it will be quiet tonight, with light and variable winds, and clear skies. 37 && .LONG TERM... /Issued 238 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019/ /This Weekend through Early Next Week/ A near zonal pattern across the southern CONUS will allow several weak lows and cold fronts to push into North and Central Texas this weekend and early next week as the Subtropical Jet remains active over the next 7-10 days. The first of these cold fronts should be making its way through the area Friday night. The lack of significant return flow ahead of this system will keep the front dry and as such, no precip is expected. The main impacts with this system will be a wind shift and slightly cooler air filtering into the area Friday night and Saturday. This will keep Saturday's afternoon high temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s with a light north wind and passing upper level clouds prevailing. The surface high will shift east Saturday night allowing low level return flow to set up across the area late this weekend. Slightly warmer temperatures are expected across the area Sunday, but deep-layer moisture return will lag about a day behind as the higher theta-e air remains along the Gulf Coast and well-mixed afternoon boundary layers help to disperse residual ground moisture from the recent rains. Continued southerly flow early next week will allow afternoon highs Monday to climb into the low 70s while also bringing the higher moisture air well into North Texas. Meanwhile, a cold front moving south across the Central Plains should be draped across the northern fringes of the forecast area by Monday evening. As this front's attendant low becomes further displaced from our area, the cold front should stall out somewhere across Oklahoma/North Texas Monday night and Tuesday. This will develop extensive low level cloudiness across the area with isolated to widely scattered showers possible late Monday and Monday night. From then on...forecast confidence takes a plunge as the surface front and attendant developing surface low remains draped across northern Texas. The front may waffle north/south through the early to mid parts of next week with scattered showers and thunderstorms ongoing in the vicinity of this system. The current forecast package relied on blended guidance and low PoPs areawide to account for the uncertainty. Recent ECMWF and NAEFS ensemble guidance has been suggesting a deep trough developing across the eastern CONUS late next week, with another strong cold front making its way into North and Central Texas in the day 7-10 timeframe...however, timing and associated impacts are still yet to be known ATTM. Bonnette && .SHORT TERM... /Issued 1237 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019/ /Today and Tomorrow/ A post frontal airmass characterized by clear skies, cool temperatures, and northerly winds will prevail across the region today. Strong insolation will work against the cold air advection, allowing daytime high temperatures to creep a few degrees warmer today than yesterday. Strong subsidence and height rises aloft have ushered in much drier air to the area, with the 12Z FWD RAOB sounding measuring a PWAT of 0.16"...a record low for this day. The center of a surface high currently over Big Country will continue east through the day, settling over SE Texas tonight. Expect temperatures to tumble quickly this evening with the loss of insolation. Light winds and ample radiational cooling will allow temperatures to once again dip below freezing area-wide tonight/Friday morning. The surface winds will also veer to the south overnight as the surface ridge moves east allowing return flow to set back up across the area by tomorrow. This will let temperatures rise roughly 10 degrees between today and tomorrow. Bonnette && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 32 59 37 58 38 / 0 0 0 0 0 Waco 27 61 36 59 36 / 0 0 0 0 0 Paris 28 56 35 56 34 / 0 0 0 0 0 Denton 27 58 35 57 35 / 0 0 0 0 0 McKinney 28 57 35 57 35 / 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 31 60 38 58 38 / 0 0 0 0 0 Terrell 27 58 35 59 35 / 0 0 0 0 0 Corsicana 30 59 37 57 37 / 0 0 0 0 0 Temple 30 61 37 59 37 / 0 0 0 0 0 Mineral Wells 27 63 33 57 32 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 37/79
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 247 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-011215- 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- 247 PM CDT Thu Oct 31 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Low thunderstorm chances return to areas east of I-35 Tuesday and across the region Wednesday. No severe weather is anticipated. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe to extreme drought conditions for the western half of the county for most of November showed signs of improvement by the end of the month.
Severe to extreme drought conditions for the western half of the county for part of November showed signs of improvement by the end of the month.
Severe to extreme drought conditions over the county for most of November showed signs of improvement by the end of the month.
Severe to extreme drought conditions over most of the county for part of November showed signs of improvement by the end of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, November 2019
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: 865023, 865024, 865025, 865026.