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 Sep 25, 2:59 PM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 359 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003 DECIDED TO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT...FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. MAIN AREA OF CONCERN IS FROM ABILENE... SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE HEARTLAND AND NW HILL COUNTRY THIS EVENING. 14 RATHER ACTIVE WEATHER OVER WC TX THIS AFTERNOON...WITH AN MCS MOVING THROUGH THE HEART OF THE FORECAST AREA. A MESOSCALE LOW MAY BE FORMING JUST SOUTH OF SWEETWATER...WHICH WILL AID HEAVY RAIN CHANCES FROM ABILENE...SOUTHEAST TO NEAR COLEMAN IN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...OVERALL SYSTEM MOVEMENT APPEARS SUFFICIENT TO DIMINISH WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOOD THREAT. TODAY/S RAIN FORMED IN A LOW LEVEL MOISTURE RIDGE EXTENDING UP THE RIO GRANDE...INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WC TX. IN ADDITION... THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE AIDED BY DIVERGENCE ALOFT... ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEFT FRONT QUAD OF THE 250MB JET UNDERCUTTING A WEAK UPPER SHEAR AXIS FROM NM...INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN. THE UPPER SHEAR AXIS/DEVELOPING OPEN SHORTWAVE TROF EXPECTED TO DROP TO THE PERMIAN BASIN TONIGHT...AND TO THE MID RIO GRANDE VALLEY BY TOMORROW EVENING. WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS PRIMARILY SOUTH OF I-10 THROUGH TOMORROW...WITH ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR OVER NW TX WILL HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME MAKING IT INTO WC TX UNTIL A POSSIBLE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE EARLY SATURDAY. THIS FRONT WOULD BE OF PACIFIC ORIGIN...FOLLOWED QUICKLY BY SOUTHERLY SURFACE RETURN FLOW AND ASSOCIATED LOW LEVEL THETA-E RIDGE THROUGH THE MID PART OF NEXT WEEK. GFS BRINGS A RATHER STRONG COLD FRONT TO WC TX NEAR OR JUST AFTER THE LAST PERIOD OF THE NEW 7-DAY FORECAST. THE ASSOCIATED AIRMASS APPEARS TO ORIGINATE IN WESTERN CANADA. WE WILL SEE...AS RUN-TO-RUN VARIABILITY OF THE MEDIUM RANGE GFS HAS BEEN HIGH AS OF LATE. PRELIMS... ABI 063/087/065/083 41-- SJT 064/086/064/084 41-- JCT 063/084/063/085 7311 .SJT...FFA TONIGHT FOR ZONES ZONES TXZ066-072-073-077-078-098-099-113-114- 127-128-139-140-154-155-168>170. 14
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 217 PM CDT THU SEP 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORMS...AND THE HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSED LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 19
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Secondary roads in the northeast portion of the county were under water for several hours after heavy rains.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5336854.