7 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 7 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 Oct 10, 1:30 AM CST, 8 hours 25 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 AM CDT FRI OCT 10 2003 CURRENT...SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING LOW CLOUDS CONTINUE TO DOMINATE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS FOG BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS OUR AREA. DAYS 1-3...MODEL TIME-HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY ANALYSIS INDICATES AMPLE MOISTURE WILL PERSIST ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SUNDAY. MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE THE ATMOSPHERE WILL GRADUALLY BECOME EVEN MORE SATURATED...FROM THE SURFACE THROUGH 300 MB....UNTIL PEAK SATURATION OCCURS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AT THAT TIME...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALES PEAK AT AROUND 2 INCHES. IN ADDITION...ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS (310 K SURFACE) INDICATES WEAK UPGLIDE TODAY WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT IN RESPONSE TO A MINOR SHORT WAVE...AND ITS ASSOCIATED VORT MAX...WHICH MOVES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT. WITH ANOTHER COLD FRONT PUSHING ACROSS TEXAS ON SATURDAY...WILL GO WITH THE BEST POPS THEN. ISENTROPIC LIFT CONTINUES INTO SATURDAY NIGHT AND THROUGH SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. THUS...WILL CONTINUE HIGHEST POPS THERE THROUGH SUNDAY. NUMBERS CLOSER TO MAV MOS LOOK BEST GIVEN THE PERSISTENT MOISTURE. DAYS 4-7...NO MAJOR CHANGES HERE WITH THE MAIN FOCUS ON DAYS 1-3. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 079/065/075/058/068 22644 SJT 075/066/075/058/070 54865 JCT 080/068/078/063/073 75887 .SJT...NONE. 23/HUBER
TXZ054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-154- 155-168>170-111015- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 520 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE REMAINING IN PLACE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AND WITH PERIODIC UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST...THERE WILL BE A CONTINUING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UPPER LEVEL PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS WEEKEND WILL INTERACT WITH A COLD FRONT DROPPING INTO THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON SATURDAY TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING EAST OF THE AREA BY THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK...CHANCES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL DECREASE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 15 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway 163 was closed for several hours after heavy rains flooded the highway.
Significant street flooding was observed in San Angelo with roads closed and some water rescues.
Significant street flooding in Ballinger.
Road 1691 was closed after heavy rains flooded the road.
There was significant street flooding in Junction. Also 6 feet of water covered highway 377 just south of Junction.
Some roads in Mason impassable after heavy rains.
Numerous roads across the western portion of Brown county were impassable.
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, October 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: 5335039, 5335040, 5335041, 5335042, 5335890, 5335891, 5335892.