Severe to extreme drought conditions persisted across portions of North and Central Texas throughout the month of December. Some improvement was seen late in the month in Central Texas after beneficial rainfall was received.
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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 to extreme drought conditions persisted across portions of North and Central Texas throughout the month of December. Some improvement was seen late in the month in Central Texas after beneficial rainfall was received.
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 30, 11:25 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1125 PM CST Thu Nov 30 2023 ...New Short Term, Aviation... .SHORT TERM... /NEW/ /Overnight through Saturday/ Water vapor imagery shows the shortwave responsible for today's rains now moving off to the northeast of the region. A surface low is located across northern Oklahoma with a trailing cold front now entering our northwest counties. As it does, winds have veered more westerly and we've seen drastic improvements in visibility over the last hour. The Dense Fog Advisory has been canceled as a result. The front will make steady progress through North and Central Texas overnight with temperatures falling into the upper 30s in the northwest by morning. Any remaining patchy fog east of I-35 will improve as winds become more west/northwest overnight. Broad troughing continues over the western CONUS and as a result, a steady stream of high clouds will continue across the central and southern parts of the state into Friday. We'll also likely see some wrap around low clouds spread southward out of Oklahoma during the late morning hours. Some of these may impact our northern row or two of counties for a few hours. Otherwise, it'll be a cool day with highs in the upper 50s and lower 60s. By Saturday, the aforementioned western CONUS trough will spread eastward into the Plains. This will send another Pacific front through North Texas, however there won't be much cool air behind it. Westerly winds will send a surge of drier air into North Texas and temperatures will climb into the lower 70s across much of the region. Dunn && .LONG TERM... /Issued 231 PM CST Thu Nov 30 2023/ Update: No major changes in store for the long term forecast. Brief, low (20%) rain chances exist tomorrow night as rain showers may skirt the far southeast of our forecast area. Otherwise, it'll be rain- free and mild with temperatures near or slightly above normal through the midweek. Gordon Previous Discussion: /Friday through Wednesday/ Drier and cooler air will filter into North and Central Texas Friday behind a cold front. The front should reach the Texas Gulf Coast by sunrise Friday and remain stalled in that vicinity through much of the weekend. Weak cold air advection will be offset partially by daytime sun, allowing temperatures to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s for most of the forecast area. The dry air will remain in place Friday night but high clouds will slow cooling a bit. Temperatures will fall into the 40s in most locations by early Saturday morning, except for the the northern zones where upper 30s will be more common. A series of shortwave troughs will rotate through the region Saturday through Sunday, but with low level moisture scoured out, they will come through virtually unnoticed. One thing that will be noticed will be a nice warmup both Saturday and Sunday with plenty of sun and some compressional warming supplied by a southwest to west wind. Since the western zones will miss out on most of the precipitation today, there will be a slight uptick in the wildfire potential Sunday due to increasing west winds, relative humidity less than 30 percent, and above normal temperatures. The first half of next week will be rain-free and quiet with dry northwest flow aloft and only a very slow return of Gulf moisture. Temperatures Monday through Wednesday will be near seasonal normals with highs in the 60s and lows from the mid 30s to the lower 40s. It does look like some low rain chances may return to portions of North and Central Texas by the end of next week. 79 && .AVIATION... /NEW/ /6Z TAFs/ Conditions are rapidly improving across the D10 airspace tonight with all IFR cigs/vis now east of the area. West/northwest winds around 10 kt will persist overnight with VFR prevailing. Winds will become more easterly late Friday. At Waco, LIFR vis/cigs will improve over the next 1-2 hours with VFR prevailing through Friday. Dunn && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Dallas-Ft. Worth 45 60 44 70 42 / 10 0 0 0 0 Waco 46 63 44 70 44 / 5 5 0 0 0 Paris 46 58 40 64 38 / 80 0 0 0 0 Denton 41 60 40 70 37 / 10 0 0 0 0 McKinney 43 59 40 67 37 / 30 0 0 0 0 Dallas 45 60 43 69 42 / 10 0 0 0 0 Terrell 46 59 42 67 40 / 30 0 0 0 0 Corsicana 49 63 46 70 45 / 20 5 5 5 0 Temple 46 67 44 73 43 / 5 0 0 5 0 Mineral Wells 40 62 42 73 39 / 5 0 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. &&
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 1101 PM CST Thu Nov 30 2023 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- 1101 PM CST Thu Nov 30 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Patchy fog may reduce visibility to less than 1 mile mainly east of I-35 overnight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. 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.
6 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe to extreme drought conditions impacted the county but some improvement was seen late in the month.
Severe to extreme drought conditions impacted the county but some improvement was seen late in the month.
Severe to extreme drought conditions impacted the county but some improvement was seen late in the month.
Severe drought conditions impacted the county through the end of the month.
Severe drought conditions impacted the county through the end of the month.
Severe drought conditions impacted the county through the end of the month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 1148526, 1148527, 1148528, 1148529, 1148530, 1148531.