Ground stop at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Oct 15, 2026

ActiveStrong winds halt departures from Dallas/Fort Worth airport

Started: Thu, Oct 15, 9:10 PM CDT02:10 UTC
Scheduled until: 10:00 pm CDT
In effect for: 13 min
Cause: wind

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What happened

AI-written · may contain mistakes. Written from the advisory text and weather only.

Cause: Strong, gusty winds, including a sudden burst of wind pushing down at the airport, led air traffic control to stop flights from leaving DFW.

The ground stop began at 02:10 UTC on October 16 and was set to last until 10:00 pm CDT. Departures were held from four air traffic control centers, and the stop was still in effect about a minute after it started. Officials say there is a medium chance it will be extended.

Impact by airline

No airline data was collected for this ground stop.

Airline numbers appear after the first sample, within about 20 minutes of the start.

Impact by region

Air traffic control centers whose departures to the airport were held.

Center	Status
ZHU	Held
ZFW	Held
ZME	Held
ZAB	Held

Timeline

Every change published while the ground stop was in effect, as seen each minute.

Oct 15, 9:10 PM CDT
Ground stop issued at DFW for wind, until 10:00 pm CDT. Departures held from ZHU, ZFW, ZME, ZAB.
Oct 15, 9:12 PM CDT
Reason changed to wind.

Advisories

The air traffic control advisories issued for this ground stop, as published.

ATCSCC ADVZY 013 DFW/ZFW 10/16/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: DFW
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 0208Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 16/0158Z - 16/0300Z
CUMULATIVE PROGRAM PERIOD: 15/2315Z - 16/0259Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Manual) ZHU ZFW ZME ZAB
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 876 / 201 / 49
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 1731 / 288 / 96
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: WEATHER / WIND
COMMENTS: MICROBURST AT THE FIELD. HOLDING EXPECTED

Original advisory ↗

Where flights were held

Departures to DFW were held from 4 centers (Manual).

Chance of extension: MEDIUM

Weather at the time

METAR, weather alerts and SIGMETs at the airport during the stop.

When it started

VFR

METAR KDFW 160153Z 36014KT 10SM SCT047TCU BKN110 BKN250 24/17 A3008 RMK AO2 PK WND 35031/0057 SLP178 TCU SW T02440167 · observed Oct 15, 8:53 PM CDT

Wind Advisory · Wind Advisory issued October 15 at 12:18PM CDT until October 16 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Fort Worth TX

Over the airport: Convective SIGMET 6C.

Latest during the stop

VFR

METAR KDFW 160153Z 36014KT 10SM SCT047TCU BKN110 BKN250 24/17 A3008 RMK AO2 PK WND 35031/0057 SLP178 TCU SW T02440167 · observed Oct 15, 8:53 PM CDT

Wind Advisory · Wind Advisory issued October 15 at 12:18PM CDT until October 16 at 7:00PM CDT by NWS Fort Worth TX

Over the airport: Convective SIGMET 6C.

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How it is measured

Status, timeline, cause and held centers: the national airspace status feed, checked every minute, and the air traffic control advisories it links to.
Delays by airline and region: departures and arrivals at DFW 30 or more minutes late, by their estimated delay against the schedule, sampled every 10 minutes while the stop is active and once more after it ends.
Totals and cancellations: arrival and departure boards for DFW, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at DFW; cancelled is the airline's cancelled status; codeshares count once. Flights scheduled from the start until an hour after the end are counted.
Held at origin: the same arrivals boards, which carry each flight's scheduled and actual departure from its origin. A flight is held when it is still scheduled, not departed, 15 or more minutes past its scheduled departure at a sample taken during the stop. In scope: its origin is in a held center or listed facility; flights from elsewhere are late for other reasons.
Inbound in the air: the same arrivals boards. At each board taken during the stop, a flight to DFW is in the air when it has departed (en route, or with an actual departure time) and not landed, cancelled or diverted; one still shown in the air over an hour past its arrival estimate, or departed more than 18 hours earlier, is treated as stale and left out.
Diversions: an inbound flight marked diverted during the stop or the wrap-up after it (not one marked before it could have departed), or one still shown in the air 30+ minutes past its arrival estimate that ADS-B (by its ICAO call sign) then found on the ground at another airport, not its origin. The diversion airport is the airport ADS-B found it at, else the updated destination. Cancellations never count. Regional flights flown under another call sign can't be found on ADS-B, so their diversion airport may be unknown.
Aircraft on the ground and holding: ADS-B positions around DFW, every 5 minutes; the airline is read from the call sign. Holding counts airline flights only (passenger, regional and cargo), not private, military or medical flights.
Weather: METARs, SIGMETs and weather alerts.
News: headline links filtered to this airport and these days; we show titles and links only.

Data sources are listed on the credits page.