A messy complex of storms moved through the region during the overnight hours. The storms were largely below severe limits but a bowing segment produced wind damage |and a brief tornado in Rockwall County.
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A messy complex of storms moved through the region during the overnight hours. The storms were largely below severe limits but a bowing segment produced wind damage |and a brief tornado in Rockwall County.
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 Mar 29, 2:00 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 300 AM CDT Tue Mar 29 2022 ...New Long Term... .SHORT TERM... /Issued 231 AM CDT Tue Mar 29 2022/ /This Morning Through Wednesday/ ...Increasing Severe Weather Threat and Impacts Late Tonight Areawide...Continuing Eastern Counties Wednesday Morning... ...Wind Advisory This Afternoon Through Much Of Tonight... ...Elevated Grass Fire Danger Continues Today Generally West of I-35/35W... A busy 24-36 hours lies ahead as we await our long-anticipated storm system, dryline, then cold front arriving tonight and early Wednesday. Currently, a relatively warm and windy night is ongoing as a strong 50kt+ LLJ helps to draw stratus up already into Central Texas and underneath a broken high cloud canopy occurring well in advance of our approaching deep upper trough. Temperatures remained well into the 60s and even lower 70s across the immediate heat island, urbanized areas of the DFW Metroplex. By daybreak, much of the area east of US-281 should see a broken stratus canopy through mid-late morning, before these clouds lift and scatter during the early-mid afternoon hours. However, plentiful high cloudiness will put a lid on much of the insolation. Humidity will also be on the increase below our in the upper 50s/lower 60s surge northward in advance of a deepening dryline across West Texas this afternoon. The previously issued Wind Advisory will be held, though I do expect the stronger southerly winds 25-30 mph with gusts 35-40 mph+ to be generally east of US-281 where the axis of very strong 925mb-850mb flow will be centered. Despite the abundant cloudiness expected through early this evening, I do think the ongoing and impressive low level WAA and occasional spotty sunshine late in the day should allow highs to reach or exceed the 80 degree mark, with areas across western North and Central Texas seeing highs in the mid 80s with a few readings in the upper 80s across our Big Country areas. RH values should remain elevated, even across these western counties where ERC-G values and fuel dryness remains very high. Despite the elevated RH values, I did issue a Grass Fire Danger Statement across the west of I-35/35W where the very dry small vegetation exists, as I believe rapid fire starts/spreads can still occur with the very gusty south winds and warm temperatures and easily overcome the higher environmental RH values. Though I can't rule out a rogue shower or few sprinkles today into the evening hours, especially within the more moisture- rich airmass across East Texas and the Ark-La-Tex, our current special 06z FWD sounding continues to show a stout elevated mixed layer(EML)/capping inversion between 850mb-550mb with very steep lapse rates between between 8-9 deg C/km above 800mb. The moisture trapped below will be shallow and should be able to be scattered quickly with the EML keeping a lid on any convective potential as we await the better large-scale ascent associated with DPVA and isentropic ascent. As the upper trough lifts out over Permian Basin/Big Country and into West-Central/Northwest Texas where the surface dryline will be situated by or shortly after 00z Wednesday, discrete strong to severe storms will develop quickly, then spread east with upscale growth into a broken line of storms or a QLCS by midnight and after. With strong, westerly mid-level flow upwards to 60 kts expected across North-Central Texas and relatively orthogonal to the line itself, I believe this activity will move into and impact our western counties just before midnight, then surge quickly east of US-281 and toward the I-35 corridor between midnight and 3-4 am CDT, likely organizing better as a QLCS as the linear convective system encounters better environmental moisture and a 50-60 kt LLJ across the I-35 corridor into East Texas and the Ark- La-Tex. Though damaging winds upward to 65-70 mph and frequent lightning are expected to be the primary threats, EBWD values between 50-60 kts (basically effective shear and a better gauge on storm-relative inflow) will support a few brief nocturnal tornadoes and at least lower the potential for severe hail (though if current very steep lapse rates were to pull back further west and juxtapose with these storms), then isolated potential for larger hail with any discrete activity certainly can't be ruled out. That should be more the exception than the rule. The organized line should race eastward across our East Texas counties through daybreak Wednesday and outrun the upper level system and associated cold front quite easily. Elevated moisture and instability will continue immediately behind the initial line across our east of I-35 through at least mid-late morning Wednesday, before the cold front, drier low level air, and gusty west and northwest winds arrive into the area to diminish rain probabilities rapidly by midday and beyond Wednesday afternoon. With the core axis of the upper trough delayed some, lingering cloud cover across parts of North Texas will keep temperatures down somewhat as compared to Central Texas. Highs will range from the mid 60s northwest to around 80 degrees across the Lower Brazos Valley as low level CAA is delayed somewhat with more sunshine than areas further north. Regardless, northwest winds 15-20 mph and gusty will definitely make for one of our cooler days seen since mid-late last week. Some of these high temperatures may be very early in the day with falling temperatures as we move through the day. 05/Marty && .LONG TERM... /NEW/ /Wednesday Night through Monday/ A trailing piece of shortwave energy will overspread the Southern Plains late Wednesday night into Thursday morning and may result in some increased mid level cloud cover. There is a good bit of synoptic scale forcing associated with this mid level moisture, so we can't rule out an isolated sprinkle or some light rain, but given the dry lower half of the atmosphere, we'll keep PoPs out of the current forecast. This should pass by rather quickly and we'll see a return to southerly flow by early Friday. Moisture will be a little slow to return, but another disturbance will swing through the Plains Friday night and may result in some widely scattered showers across the region into Saturday morning. Weak shortwave ridging will build in behind this disturbance through the weekend, which is shaping up to be pretty nice with temperatures near 80 and some passing mid and high clouds. As we get into early next week though, there is quite a bit of uncertainty with respect to additional rain/storm chances. A fast moving disturbance within the stronger zonal flow looks like it will approach sometime late Monday or Tuesday. The main question right now will be the quality of moisture return into the region ahead of this disturbance. Given that it's still about a week out, we've generally broad brushed 30-50% PoPs in line with the blended guidance and will refine as we get a little closer. Temperatures for the latter part of this week into the weekend will run a few degrees above normal. Dunn && .AVIATION... /Issued 231 AM CDT Tue Mar 29 2022/ /06z TAFs/ Concerns and Challenges: MVFR cigs through mid-late morning, how strong S sustained winds/gusts through this evening, and timing TS chances. A 50kt+ LLJ has already pulled MVFR cigs ABV 020 into ACT a few hours earlier than anticipated early this morning. These cigs have already pulled as far N as KINJ and KF44 and will likely be into especially eastern D10/DFW Metro airports by 09z-10z. The warmer than expected temperatures and continued strong and gusty S winds 10-20 kts with a few gusts in excess of 30 kts will likely keep MVFR cigs ABV 020, though I have kept a brief low MVFR TEMPO group in for either side of 12z for if/when these winds briefly subside and correlate with slightly cooler temperatures. Otherwise, cigs should rapidly lift into low VFR between 15z-18z with expected warming, then scattered with few-scattered Cu and abundant mid-high clouds between FL 150-250. A strong capping inversion should keep convective precipitation at bay at all airports through 04z-06z Wednesday (tonight), but I can't rule out a few brief WAA -SHRA across ACT and Central TX, thus will advertise this with the next LLJ evolution after nightfall this evening at that airport. I'll fine tune the best 2-3 hours convective wind by or after 06z at all airports on the 12z TAFs, as well as any MVFR cig trends both this morning and again after 06z Wednesday. 05/Marty && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 83 62 74 46 70 / 5 100 30 0 0 Waco 82 59 79 44 72 / 5 100 40 0 0 Paris 79 59 74 42 63 / 10 100 100 0 0 Denton 82 56 72 39 69 / 5 100 20 0 0 McKinney 80 59 74 41 67 / 5 100 50 0 0 Dallas 82 62 75 46 69 / 5 100 40 0 0 Terrell 81 59 76 42 67 / 5 100 70 0 0 Corsicana 82 60 78 44 70 / 5 100 80 0 0 Temple 82 59 80 43 74 / 5 100 30 0 0 Mineral Wells 84 56 70 41 71 / 5 100 5 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Wind Advisory from 1 PM this afternoon to 4 AM CDT Wednesday for TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 332 AM CDT Tue Mar 29 2022 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-300845- 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- 332 AM CDT Tue Mar 29 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Thunderstorms are expected to move through most of North and Central Texas overnight. Some of these will be severe with damaging winds and perhaps a few tornadoes. Winds will occasionally gust to 40 mph across the region today. There will still be a threat for grass fires mainly along and west of a line from Lampasas to Bowie where the combination of warmest temperatures and lowest humidity will exist. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a low chance of storms late Friday night mainly north of I-20 and across all of North and Central Texas late Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Limited spotter activation may be requested overnight.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:30 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 strong wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A home on Calvert Rd in the Forney area sustained damage. The home lost several shingles, had broken tree limbs, and the work shop, though still standing, was structurally destroyed. Both the roll up doors were blown out and all the trusses and supports are bent and/or broken.
Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs, garage buildings, and porches to the south of McLendon Chisholm. A short tornado developed soon after.
Strong winds in Rowlett snapped a large, older tree trunk, and a large tree limb crashed into the corner of the nearby home, causing structural damage to the garage.
A brief tornado, likely embedded within straight line winds impacted a few homes on Candice Circle to the east of McLendon-Chisholm. The tornado began near Bluebonnet Dr where a few trees were damaged. On Candice Circle, the porte-cochere of one home collapsed, and the attached roof broke off the garage. Poles were also bent around a basketball court. Next door, the tornado caused significant damage to the top floor attic of the house, moved several trailers, and destroyed a shed. The tornado continued a short distance down the road and likely lifted in the field northeast of the homes. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.
A trained spotter reported that an aluminum awning at a gas station was damaged and a few shingles were removed from a roof of a home nearby.
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