4 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 22, 2:00 PM CST, 13 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 300 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003 UPPER RIDGE NOW CENTERED OVER CENTRAL PLAINS. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED UP OVER MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WITHIN THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS. LARGEST AREA OF STORMS IS ASSOCIATED WITH WESTWARD MOVING UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO THE EASTERN COUNTIES. DISTURBANCE SHOULD BE THROUGH CWA BY LATE THIS EVENING... WILL PUT NOTE IN ZONES MENTIONING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. CENTER OF UPPER HIGH WILL BUILD SE TOWARD THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH EASTERLY WAVE ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST ROTATING QUICKLY WESTWARD TRACKING SOUTH OF THE CWA. CONSEQUENTLY...BEST CHANCE OF RAINFALL WILL BE IN SOUTHERN TIER OF OUR COUNTIES WILL LESSER CHANCES IN OUR NORTHERN COUNTIES. AVN RAPIDLY MOVES UPPER WAVE WEST OF THE AREA BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND SO CHANCES OF PRECIP WILL DECREASE FURTHER INTO THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...GIVEN FCSTD MOISTURE PROFILE WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE OF POPS THROUGH MID WEEK BUT WILL IGNORE RAMP UP ON TUESDAY ASSOCIATED WITH EXPECTED FRONTAL PASSAGE...AT LEAST UNTIL WE GET CLOSER TO THE EVENT. PRELIMS... ABI 071/095/071/098 3222 SJT 070/094/069/096 3222 JCT 070/093/069/096 4322 .SJT...NONE. 15
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-231900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 204 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. THE STORMS SHOULD PERSIST THROUGH SUNSET...THEN SLOWLY BEGIN TO DISSIPATE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL DRIFT SLOWLY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SUNDAY...HELPING DEVELOP SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA EACH AFTERNOON. AGAIN...ALTHOUGH NONE OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were down in Abilene after a severe thunderstorm moved through the area. Several homes also received roof damage.
Several trees and power lines were downed in Brownwood due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
Large tree limbs were 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, August 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: 5377326, 5377325, 5377231, 5377232.