1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 9, 2:15 AM CST, 6 hours earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 315 AM CDT THU OCT 9 2003 LOTS OF NICE SOAKING RAINS OVER MUCH OF WESTCENTRAL TEXAS. UNFORTUNATELY MOST OF THE RAIN WILL END THIS MORNING. THE NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LOW OVER BAJA CALIFORNIA THAT BROUGHT THE RAINS UP FROM MEXICO WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD THIS WEEKEND. MEANWHILE...A SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS MORNING WILL BRING DRIER AIR INTO THE REGION FROM NORTH TO SOUTH...AS UPPER RIDGING BUILDS IN BEHIND IT. ETA AND AVN MODELS INDICATE MOST OF THE LIFT GONE BY 12Z (7 AM) TODAY. EXPECT NUMEROUS/SCATTERED SHOWERS TO DIMINISH QUICKLY THIS MORNING...AND MAY NEED A MID MORNING UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR LOWER RAIN CHANCES. BY 7 PM THIS EVENING...MOST OF THE MOISTURE CONFINED FROM 850 MB AND BELOW. WITH THE RECENT RAINS AND FAIRLY LIGHT WINDS...AREAS THAT CLEAR TONIGHT MAY SEE PATCHY DENSE FOG BY FRIDAY MORNING. THE BEST AREA I THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN...WOULD BE IN THE BIG COUNTRY. WILL MENTION PATCHY FOG EVERYWHERE THOUGH. MAY SEE AN INCREASE IN HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY...AND INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK...AS SOME MOISTURE FROM THE BAJA LOW IS MOVED NORTHWARD INTO WEST TEXAS...NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. NOT SURE ON EXTENT OF IT...AS THERE IS A UNCERTAINTY IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE UPPER LOW. YESTERDAYS 00Z RUN HAD IT MOVING INTO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARLY NEXT WEEK...TODAYS INDICATES IT WILL BE FURTHER EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERN ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO STATE LINES. A COLD FRONT OTHERWISE REINFORCES WEAK SURFACE RIDGING OVER THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. WHILE A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS POSSIBLE...WONT INCLUDE AT THIS TIME AS LIFT/UPPER DYNAMICS LACKING. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 080/060 080/060 080 710-1 SJT 080/061 080/060 080 410-1 JCT 079/063 080/060 081 520-- .SJT...NONE. 04
TXZ054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-154- 155-168>170-101015- 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... A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH EAST AND OUT OF THE AREA BY MID MORNING. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WITH A WET GROUND AND CLEARING SKIES...PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Many roads across the city of Brownwood became flooded and impassable. The worst of the flooding occurred along Adams branch and Willlis Creek.
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
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