2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 25, 2:32 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 332 AM CDT SUN MAY 25 2003 08Z ANALYSIS SHOWS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PUSHING THROUGH SOUTHERN ARIZONA. THIS IS PUSHING INTO THE UPPER RIDGE ACROSS FAR WEST TEXAS INTO THE ROCKIES. ON THE SURFACE A COLD FRONT STRETCHES ALONG THE RED RIVER. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS ARE LEFT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. TODAY AND TONIGHT... WITH THE MOIST EAST UPSLOPE FLOW AND THE COLD FRONT SLOWLY PUSHING THROUGH THE REGION...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE ALONG THE FRONT AND DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WITH THE FRONT ONLY CRAWLING AT BEST...HAVE UPDATED IFPS GRIDS TO INDICATE THE SLOWER TIMING THAN MODELS CURRENTLY INDICATE. EXPECT THE FRONT NEAR INTERSTATE 20 BY EARLY AFTERNOON...AND THROUGH THE CENTRAL COUNTIES BY 00Z. THIS WILL BODE WELL FOR THE BEST CHANCES OF RAIN DURING THE PEAK HEATING TIME OF DAY. HOWEVER WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDS...NOT SURE HOW MUCH SURFACE HEATING WILL BE POSSIBLE. MID LEVELS WILL BE COOLER AND THIS SHOULD HELP TRIGGER BETTER ACTIVITY THAN SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN. HOWEVER WITH THE UPPER LOW MOVING IN A FEW SUPERCELLS WILL BE POSSIBLE...THUS DO NOT RULE OUT A POSSIBLE TORNADO. MONDAY AND TUESDAY... WITH THE UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER CHIHUAHUA BY MONDAY MORNING AND THEN THE BIG BEND AREA BY MONDAY NIGHT...BETTER SHOWER ACTIVITY CAN BE EXPECTED TO THE SOUTHWEST. WITH CONTINUED MOIST EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW...SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BACK INTO THE REGION WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...THUS EXPECT DRY AND HOTTER CONDITIONS THE LAST HALF OF THE WEEK. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 080/057/077/061 5532 SJT 085/060/079/061 3543 JCT 089/062/083/063 2543 .SJT...NONE. 24
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-251930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS THROUGH TONIGHT FOR AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM MERTZON...TO EDEN...TO BRADY. A COMPLEX OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS EVENING AND MOVE SOUTHEAST MAINLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY...THE CONCHO VALLEY AND THE HEARTLAND OVERNIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WITH A FRONT MOVING THROUGH AND THEN STALLING OUT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. OTHERWISE...A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TONIGHT. 15 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Reports of numerous street and road closures due to flooding.
Several roads to the southeast of Eldorado had water over them.
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: 5358404, 5358478.