Thunderstorm Wind, Schleicher
- When
- August 25, 4:58 PM CST
- Where
- Schleicher County, Eldorado
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 30.850, -100.617
Damaging Wind in Texas, August 25, 2004
Powerlines knocked down.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Powerlines knocked down.
What forecasters said that day
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 Aug 25, 2:51 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:51 PM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 351 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004 .SHORT TERM... RADAR SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWESTERN COUNTIES AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH CONTINUES TO PUSH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING SO HAVE INCREASED PRECIP CHANCES ACROSS THE AREA FOR TONIGHT. ALTHOUGH INSTABILITY IS NOT GREAT...WE COULD SEE A FEW STRONG STORMS EARLY THIS EVENING. AFTER STORMS DECREASE LATER TONIGHT...WILL SEE CLOUDY SKIES TOWARD MORNING ANDLOW TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 760S WITH HIGHER DEWPOINTS ACROSS THE AREA. && .LONG TERM... FOR TOMORROW...SHOULD SEE A LESS CHANCE OF RAIN AS THE UPPER TROUGH MOVES TO THE EAST. WITH LESS CLOUD COVER...TEMPERATURES TOMORROW SHOULD BE A COUPLE DEGREES WARMER. THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN COMES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS THE NEXT UPPER TROUGH AND COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW THE FRONT MOVING THROUGH...SO HAVE CONTINUED THE TREND OF INCREASING PRECIP CHANCES FOR THE WEEKEND. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 74 96 75 95 / 30 10 10 20 SAN ANGELO 74 97 74 94 / 30 10 10 10 JUNCTION 74 94 73 93 / 20 10 0 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99/99
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 1:04 PM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 204 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261904- BROWN TX-CALLAHAN TX-COKE TX-COLEMAN TX-CONCHO TX-CROCKETT TX- FISHER TX-HASKELL TX-IRION TX-JONES TX-KIMBLE TX-MASON TX- MCCULLOCH TX-MENARD TX-NOLAN TX-RUNNELS TX-SAN SABA TX-SCHLEICHER TX- SHACKELFORD TX-STERLING TX-SUTTON TX-TAYLOR TX-THROCKMORTON TX- TOM GREEN TX- 204 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHWEST CONCHO VALLEY. ANY STORMS WHICH CAN DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WEEKEND...AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 19
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:00 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Surf in Guam, August 25, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 25, 2004
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, August 25, 2004
- Heat in Texas, August 25, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, August 25, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2004
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 25, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 25, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 25, 2004
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, August 25, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, August 25, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 25, 2004
More
Every storm in Texas in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2004
Sources
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: 5419900.