3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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 Sep 14, 2:00 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 300 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FIRE ALONG COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH HAS SLOWED CONSIDERABLY SINCE ENTERING THE CWA. BEST ONGOING ACTIVITY IS ALONG WESTERN FLANK WEST OF THE CWA AND GIVEN SLOW MOVEMENT OF STORMS RADAR ESTIMATES FOR RAINFALL HAVE BEEN IMPRESSIVE SHOWING ISOLATED 4 TO 6 INCH AMOUNTS WEST OF THE CWA. COLD FRONT NOW ESSENTIALLY BISECTS THE CWA AND IS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF SJT WITH GOOD DEVELOPMENT NOW ONGOING NORTH OF SJT. FRONT IS FCSTD TO SLOWLY DRIFT SOUTH AND SHOULD BE NEAR I10 BY DAYBREAK WITH AREAL COVERAGE OF RAINFALL INCREASING AS MCS EXPANDS. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT ON A GOOD POST FRONTAL RAIN EVENT FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY... DIFFERENCES IN MODELS ARE IN TIMING AND AMOUNT OF RAINFALL. ETA HAS BEST LIFT ABOUT 6 HRS EARLIER THAN AVN...AVN SHOWING BEST LIFT AROUND NOON. AS TO AMOUNTS... ETA HAS A 1 INCH BULLSEYE OVER THE CONCHO VALLEY AROUND DAYBREAK WHILE AVN IS MUCH MORE BULLISH WITH A NEARLY 3 INCH BULLSEYE OVER THE CONCHO VALLEY AROUND NOON. IN ANY EVENT WILL RAISE POPS FOR TODAY WITH PRECIP ENDING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THIS EVENING. UPPER HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE AREA TOMORROW WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND A WARMING TREND THROUGH MOST OF THE COMING WEEK. COLD FRONT TOWARD THE END OF THE WORK WEEK WILL BRING AFTERNOON TEMPS BELOW SEASONAL NORMS INTO NEXT WEEKEND. PRELIMS... ABI 074/056/083/061 2100 SJT 075/056/083/060 5100 JCT 077/058/084/060 72-0 .SJT...NONE. 15
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-151030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 530 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY LATE THIS MORNING KICKING OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT DRIFTS SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. POST-FRONTAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER MUCH OF THE AREA INTO LATE AFTERNOON. NONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of up to 5 inches fell on the city of Brownwood causing significant flooding of streets. Some homes also had some minor flooding for a short time.
Numerous highways in the eastern portion of Mcculloch county had water over them.
Numerous roads in the northern and western portions of the county were under water for several hours after rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches occurred.
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, September 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: 5336851, 5336852, 5336853.