2 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 May 19, 2:23 PM CST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 323 PM CDT MON MAY 19 2003 AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS STRETCHING FROM MEXICO...ACROSS TEXAS. ON THE SURFACE A COLD FRONT IS PUSHING THROUGH THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND OKLAHOMA. MEANWHILE A PREFRONTAL TROUGH IS PUSHING IN FROM THE NORTHWEST...EXTENDING FROM NEAR HASKELL TO WESTERN CROCKETT COUNTY. TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MID 90S NORTH TO AROUND 100 ELSEWHERE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. DEWPOINTS ARE IN THE 50S AND 60S. ALSO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FIRING UP ALONG THE PREFRONTAL TROUGH FROM SWEETWATER AND ROTAN...TO HASKELL AND ALBANY. TONIGHT AND TUESDAY... SUSPECT THE CURRENT STORMS ARE QUITE ELEVATED ABOVE THE CAP...SEEING HOW THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO GET GOING. HOWEVER WITH THE SHORTWAVE PUSHING IN FROM NEW MEXICO. EXPECT BETTER ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING...BOTH ALONG THE PREFRONTAL TROUGH AND LATER WITH THE ACTUAL COLD FRONT. GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THE TROUGH...EXPECT A FEW OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN CONCERN. ALONG AND BEHIND THE ACTUAL COLD FRONT THE CAP WEAKENS CONSIDERABLY. WITH THE BEST MOISTURE EAST...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS TO SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE FORECAST AREA. THIS WILL MOST LIKELY BE DELAYED UNTIL MORNING FOR THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY... THE RIDGE CONTINUES TO SINK SOUTH ALLOWING A FEW DISTURBANCES TO RIDE OVER THE RIDGE AND THROUGH NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE AREA. THIS COMBINED WITH OVERRUNNING MOISTURE SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO ALLOW FOR SCATTERED ACTIVITY ON WEDNESDAY...BEFORE GRADUALLY DISSIPATING BY THURSDAY MORNING. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THE RIDGE IS SLOWER (THAN PREVIOUS THINKING) TO BUILD BACK IN THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WITH A COUPLE OF WAVES MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST FLOW...THE MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THE POSSIBILITY OF SHOWERS. THEREFORE WILL INTRODUCE THE MENTION OF SHOWERS FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH ON THE WEAK SIDE. ABI 058/071/054/075/057 4323 SJT 061/073/054/077/060 3223 JCT 066/076/057/078/056 2323 .SJT...NONE. 24
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-201915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 218 PM CDT MON MAY 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. AS THIS COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE BIG COUNTRY LATE THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. GIVEN THE INSTABILITY PRESENT...A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS ...WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT THIS EVENING. AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST INTO AN EVEN MORE MOIST ENVIRONMENT BY MIDNIGHT...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BECOME A THREAT ACROSS THE EXTREME EASTERN BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN HEARTLAND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXPECTED TO LINGER ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Roofs torn off of buildings and large 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, May 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: 5358395, 5358397, 5358396.