3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 28, 5:13 PM CST, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 613 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003 NEW WATCH TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF MIDLAND AND BIG SPRING EXPECTED TO BUILD SOUTHEAST TOWARD BETTER INSTABILITY AXIS ACROSS THE WESTERN BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY. PER LAPS...CAPES RUNNING AROUND 2000 J/KG FROM OZONA TO SAN ANGELO. LOOK FOR WATCH DETAILS AND ZONE UPDATE SHORTLY. 17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 315 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003 CURRENT... 20Z ANALYSIS SHOWS ISOLATED STORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE DRYLINE FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK TO NEAR ALPINE. OTHERWISE...PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES COVERED WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 40S NORTH TO AROUND 60 SOUTH. TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY... A FEW OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE TO THE WEST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING...WILL DRIFT INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE BRINGING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...THE DRYLINE WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO THE EAST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WITH WEAK IMPULSES RIDING THROUGH THE NEARLY ZONAL FLOW...THIS WILL HELP TRIGGER OFF A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. BY TUESDAY EVENING...WITH THE DRYLINE CENTERED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THERE WILL BE A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. WEDNESDAY THE DRYLINE WAVERS TO THE EAST...THEREFORE THE CHANCES OF SHOWERS ALSO MOVES EAST. THURSDAY THE DRYLINE WAVERS BACK TO THE WEST SLIGHTLY INTO THE EAST/SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. THIS WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR A FEW SHOWERS. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY... WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHING IN FROM THE NORTH THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY...A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS DEVELOPS. WITH LITTLE UPPER SUPPORT TO PUSH THE FRONT THROUGH...IT WILL CONTINUE TO HANG UP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SATURDAY...THUS CONTINUING THE SCATTERED STORMS. BY SATURDAY NIGHT THE FRONT FINALLY RETREATS NORTH OF THE AREA. SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STREAM COMBINE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS WILL PULL AN UPPER TROUGH THROUGH ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...THUS PUSHING A PACIFIC FRONT ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE EXPECT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY BEFORE DRYING OUT ON MONDAY. CCF PRELIMS.. ABI 063/085 062/090 060 24223 SJT 065/085 064/090 061 24223 JCT 063/083 062/088 063 24234= .SJT...NONE. 24/HOLGUIN
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-291915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 220 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CLOUD COVER HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE 70S AND 80S ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...BUT AS THE CLOUD DECREASES BY LATE AFTERNOON... TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO CLIMB AND THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MORE UNSTABLE. BY EARLY EVENING...A DRYLINE WILL BECOME BETTER ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH PLAINS...WITH A FEW STORMS LIKELY DEVELOPING ALONG THE DRYLINE AND PUSHING EAST INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. ONE OR TWO OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO COOL BY LATE EVENING...THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MUCH OF THE NEXT WEEK. THE DRYLINE WILL SHARPEN AND PUSH EAST EACH AFTERNOON...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorms knocked down trees and power lines in Sweetwater. There were numerous windows blown out of homes and businesses.
Numerous tree limbs blown down and a roof ripped off of a shed in Merkel.
Numerous trees blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2003
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: 5352829, 5352831, 5352830, 5352832.