Severe drought conditions impacted portions of the Red River Valley but improved by the middle of the month.
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Severe drought conditions impacted portions of the Red River Valley but improved by the middle of the month.
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 Aug 31, 5:42 PM CST, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 642 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022 ...New Short Term, Aviation... .SHORT TERM... /NEW/ /Tonight through Thursday Night/ Afternoon convection continues to wind down this evening across the region, although there are still a few clusters of stronger storms in Central Texas that will nudge into parts of Milam and Bell Counties over the next hour. Radar imagery shows a well defined outflow coming off of these storms, so would expect a weakening trend over the next hour. Given the generally uncapped nature of the atmosphere, and tropical like moisture content, additional thunderstorms may try to develop along this outflow boundary for another few hours. We'll continue to monitor this trend but have kept PoPs at around 20% through the evening across our southern counties. Elsewhere, outside of an isolated shower/storm overnight, it should be fairly quiet, although warm and humid. The upper pattern will continue to feature a broad upper trough over northwest Mexico while a slow moving trough moves through the Southern Plains on Thursday. This should set up a broad mid level deformation axis from southeast Oklahoma across North Texas into far West Texas by midday Thursday. This will allow a tightening of the mid level thermal and moisture gradients across the region and should result in an uptick in convective coverage through the day. With PWs expected to remain in the 2.0 to 2.2 inch range and little convective inhibition, even the modest ascent associated with these disturbances should be sufficient for a widespread coverage of showers and thunderstorms Thursday afternoon and evening. We'll have PoPs at 60-70% areawide, although these may need to be bumped up a bit. Tropical like atmospheric T/Td profiles suggest heavy rainfall will be the main threat through the day. We'll hold off an a Flood Watch for now given the fairly hit/miss type activity we've seen the last few days, but a few locations could certainly see some flooding issues through the day Thursday. PoPs will remain in the forecast through Thursday night as the Plains shortwave continues to slowly move east. Dunn && .LONG TERM... /Issued 223 PM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022/ /Friday Onward/ Near or below normal temperatures are likely to persist through the first week of September with rain chances on nearly a daily basis. This will be due to a detaching upper trough over the Central Plains and Midwest which will bisect the ridge as we head into Friday. With an upper weakness present above a steady stream of rich moisture characterized by PW values often exceeding 2 inches, rain chances will exist over most of North and Central Texas through the upcoming weekend and into next week. Being juxtaposed immediately beneath the upper trough/low, flow through the column will be very weak, and so will both shear and storm motion vectors, accordingly. As a result, the potential for organized convection will be very slim, with most activity consisting of slow-moving or nearly stationary cells, except where driven by outflows. Because of slow storm motions, the potential for training, and an environment supportive of efficient rainfall processes, localized flooding will be the main concern during most of the extended forecast period. Despite the presence of upper troughing, the surface pattern will remain rather diffuse and largely absent of a synoptic boundary. However, this may change over the weekend when increasingly meridional flow aloft could send a stronger shortwave and an attendant weak frontal zone into the Central and Southern Plains. Should this boundary be able to reach North Texas and stall, it would be capable of increasing rainfall coverage from Sunday into early next week. Some guidance then suggests the establishment of almost a rex block-esque pattern through the middle of next week. This type of stagnant pattern would continue to foster daily rain chances, ample cloud cover, and by extension, slightly cooler temperatures. -Stalley && .AVIATION... /NEW/ /00Z TAFs/ Showers and thunderstorms are ending across the D10 airspace this evening and VFR should prevail through the overnight, although a BKN mid/high deck will likely persist. Thursday looks like it will be another active day with an uptick in showers/storms through the afternoon/evening. We'll have VCSH by 15Z with VCTS around 19Z. We'll also include a TEMPO TSRA from 20-24Z given fairly high probabilities of thunderstorms. Outside of convective areas, VFR should prevail. Dunn && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 76 87 73 87 73 / 20 70 50 70 30 Waco 75 91 73 89 72 / 20 60 50 70 40 Paris 74 86 71 86 70 / 20 60 40 60 20 Denton 74 86 72 87 72 / 30 70 50 60 30 McKinney 74 87 71 87 71 / 20 70 50 60 30 Dallas 77 88 73 87 73 / 20 70 50 70 30 Terrell 75 90 73 87 72 / 20 70 50 60 30 Corsicana 75 90 73 86 72 / 20 60 50 60 30 Temple 72 91 71 88 71 / 20 50 40 60 40 Mineral Wells 73 85 71 89 70 / 40 70 50 70 30 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1212 AM CDT Thu Sep 1 2022 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-012330- 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- 1212 AM CDT Thu Sep 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated thunderstorms will continue overnight with the highest chances west of the I-35 corridor. Locally heavy rainfall and flooding will be the primary hazards. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There is a chance for thunderstorms across all of North and Central Texas Thursday through early next week. Severe storms are not expected, but heavy rainfall and flooding will remain possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe drought conditions affected northern portions of the county but improved by the middle of the month.
Severe drought conditions affected northern portions of the county but improved by the middle of the month.
Severe drought conditions affected northern portions of the county but improved by the middle of the month.
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