Narrative:

ZFW traffic management unit (tmu) started talking about the weather event that was forecast to happen that evening. Confidence was high. We first broached the subject of structured routings around the weather during a telcon. The new york metro aircraft were put on weather re-routes to the south end of the weather in ZKC and command center wanted to put the dc metro on a different weather re-route. ZFW saw what the weather was going to do and finally got command center to put dc metro traffic on a abi weather re-route knowing the fam weather re-route was going to quickly fall apart.our plan was to have the pnh weather route available for the traffic on the fam route so we could transition them down to the gth route when we lost the pnh route. Apparently command center's plan was to just launch everything east of ZMP and let them deviate south into ZFW with no routes and launch everything west of ZMP going east to deviate south into ZFW with no routes. As this was all falling apart ZFW tmu requested command center publish weather re-routes to catch these aircraft and put them on structured routes. Command center got their way and no further routes were published.aircraft east to west and west to east all deviated south into ZFW causing our northern tier to go red with heavy traffic volume. We opened our ultra high sectors to accommodate the added traffic but as the shift had to go home and sectors had to be combined volume got to the unmanageable stage. At one point I called command center to have them miss ZFW entirely with 6 aircraft of which they only moved 3. If a controller had done that they would have 3 airspace deviations on their record. Our first tier centers worked with us as best they could having their own problems; but we received little to no help from command center.when weather is expected to extend from okc all the way to canada; command center needs to recognize the fact that there are more departure airports than jfk/lga/ewr/bos/dca iad/bwi/phl that actually have traffic that will be impacted and figure them into the plan. Just because they may not have as high of a volume individually combined they turned out to be a lot of volume for ZKC and ZFW to deal with on deviations.when weather is impacting traffic from the east coast going west does it not stand to reason that traffic from the west coast going east will also be impacted? Quite often this seems to not be considered in the planning by command center. We were able to pin down the freight haulers to mem and sdf but every other destination fell thru the cracks and wound up in ZFW deviating.when there are east to west and west to east weather re-routes coming thru ZFW; command center never factors in traffic from ZJX and ZMA going to the same destinations. Their reply to ZFW is always that there is not enough traffic to publish a re-route for them. Last night those aircraft should never have entered ZFW airspace.

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Title: Two Center Traffic Management Specialists and a Controller report the Command Center ignored requests for weather reroutes; causing numerous Center sectors to be dangerously overloaded with traffic deviating for weather.

Narrative: ZFW Traffic Management Unit (TMU) started talking about the weather event that was forecast to happen that evening. Confidence was high. We first broached the subject of structured routings around the weather during a telcon. The New York metro aircraft were put on weather re-routes to the south end of the weather in ZKC and Command Center wanted to put the DC metro on a different weather re-route. ZFW saw what the weather was going to do and finally got Command Center to put DC metro traffic on a ABI weather re-route knowing the FAM weather re-route was going to quickly fall apart.Our plan was to have the PNH weather route available for the traffic on the FAM route so we could transition them down to the GTH route when we lost the PNH route. Apparently Command Center's plan was to just launch everything east of ZMP and let them deviate south into ZFW with no routes and launch everything west of ZMP going east to deviate south into ZFW with no routes. As this was all falling apart ZFW TMU requested Command Center publish weather re-routes to catch these aircraft and put them on structured routes. Command Center got their way and no further routes were published.Aircraft east to west and west to east all deviated south into ZFW causing our northern tier to go red with heavy traffic volume. We opened our Ultra High sectors to accommodate the added traffic but as the shift had to go home and sectors had to be combined volume got to the unmanageable stage. At one point I called Command Center to have them miss ZFW entirely with 6 aircraft of which they only moved 3. If a controller had done that they would have 3 airspace deviations on their record. Our first tier Centers worked with us as best they could having their own problems; but we received little to no help from Command Center.When weather is expected to extend from OKC all the way to Canada; Command Center needs to recognize the fact that there are more departure airports than JFK/LGA/EWR/BOS/DCA IAD/BWI/PHL that actually have traffic that will be impacted and figure them into the plan. Just because they may not have as high of a volume individually combined they turned out to be a lot of volume for ZKC and ZFW to deal with on deviations.When weather is impacting traffic from the east coast going west does it not stand to reason that traffic from the west coast going east will also be impacted? Quite often this seems to not be considered in the planning by Command Center. We were able to pin down the freight haulers to MEM and SDF but every other destination fell thru the cracks and wound up in ZFW deviating.When there are East to West and West to East weather re-routes coming thru ZFW; Command Center never factors in traffic from ZJX and ZMA going to the same destinations. Their reply to ZFW is always that there is not enough traffic to publish a re-route for them. Last night those aircraft should never have entered ZFW airspace.

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