7 drought, 1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 8 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 Nov 30, 11:16 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1116 PM CST WED NOV 30 2005 .AVIATION... COLD FRONT BETWEEN ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO CONTINUES TO MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHWARD TONIGHT. WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO 35 KT AT KABI JUST AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. AIRPORT WEATHER WARNING STILL IN EFFECT FOR ABILENE REGIONAL AIRPORT UNTIL 2 AM. SHOULD SEE WINDS DECREASE THROUGH THE NIGHT. FRONTAL PASSAGE EXPECTED AT KSJT AROUND MIDNIGHT AND JCT BY ABOUT 3 AM. SKIES CLEAR WITH VFR FOR NEXT 24 HOURS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... UPDATE... WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST TEXAS WERE STILL GUSTING UP TO 41 KNOTS. ADDED WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR THE BIG COUNTRY...CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND. FRONT AT 1015 PM WAS ALONG A STERLING CITY...ROBERT LEE..WINTERS...CROSS PLAINS LINE. STILL MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTH AROUND 35 MPH. PREV DISCUSSION... UPDATE... COLD FRONT BEARING DOWN ON THE BIG COUNTRY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF ASPERMONT...MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTH AROUND 35 MPH AT 745 PM. FRONT SHOULD MOVE THROUGH ABILENE 10 PM...PERHAPS A FEW MINUTES EARLIER. BASED ON 33 KNOT GUSTS AT CHILDRESS AND 28 KNOT GUSTS AT LUBBOCK AT 2Z...SHOULD SEE SOME 15 TO 25 MPH...WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH IN THE BIG COUNTRY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WERE ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONT...AND SHOULD FALL INTO THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE 3 HOURS AFTER PASSAGE. UPDATED ZONES FOR HIGHER WINDS AND FASTER MOVEMENT OF COLD FRONT... THOSE FURTHER SOUTH IN THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND. PREV DISCUSSION... AVIATION... SURFACE LOW ACROSS SW OK HAS KEPT SURFACE WINDS UP THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER CONDITIONS BEGINNING TO SUBSIDE A BIT AT LATEST CHECK WITH BOTH KABI AND KSJT SITES DOWN TO 10-12KTS. FRONTAL BOUNDARY SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS THE PANHANDLE WITH SURFACE OBS AT 23Z SHOWING THE BOUNDARY JUST SOUTH OF A LINE FROM KCSM TO KAMA TO KTCC. SO SHOULD CONTINUE TO SEE SURFACE WINDS NEAR 10-12 KTS AT BOTH KABI AND KSJT FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WITH A SLIGHT DECREASE PRIOR TO THE FRONTAL PASSAGE TONIGHT. TIMING STILL LOOKS TO BE REASONABLE WITH FRONT MOVING ACROSS KABI BY 5-6Z AND THROUGH KSJT NEAR 8-9Z. DECENT SURFACE PRESSURE RISES CONTINUE ACROSS SW KS AND THE NORTHERN TX PANHANDLE THIS EVENING BEHIND THE BOUNDARY...THEREFORE STILL LOOKING AT NORTHERLY WINDS INCREASING A BIT BEHIND THE WIND SHIFT TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THIS SHOULD BE SHORT LIVED AS HIGH PRESSURE WILL QUICKLY SETTLE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE MORNING HOURS ALLOWING THE PRESSURE GRADIENT TO RELAX A TAD. OTHERWISE...CIGS ARE IN CHECK AND VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HOURS. 05 PREV DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM... SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE GOTTEN FAIRLY STRONG TODAY RESPONDING TO A DEEPENING SFC LOW NEAR THE OK/TX PANHANDLES. WILL HAVE A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. WINDS SHOULD STAY MARGINALLY BELOW THE WIND ADVISORY CRITERION TO KEEP AN ADVISORY OUT OF THE FORECAST FOR NOW. A COLD FRONT MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN CO AT 19Z WILL MOVE THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. EXPECT SOUTHERLY WINDS TO DIMINISH AFTER 00Z JUST AHEAD OF THE SFC FRONT AS THE SFC PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS SOMEWHAT. WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL ALSO BE FAIRLY STRONG...BUT NOT EXPECTING 20KT TO 30KT SUSTAINED FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. PRESSURE RISES ALONG THE FRONT ARE IN THE 4MB TO 5MB/3HR RANGE...WHICH DOESN/T ARGUE FOR WINDS THAT HIGH. TOMORROW WILL BE COOLER BEHIND THE FRONT WITH HIGHS AROUND 5 DEGREES COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 50S OVER THE BIG COUNTRY TO NEAR 60 FOR THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY. LONG TERM... BY FRIDAY...SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE PLACE IN RESPONSE TO LEE SIDE SFC TROUGHING AS FAST FLOW WITH EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES MOVES ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. THIS WILL RESULT IN WARMING TEMPERATURES AND INCREASING DEW POINTS. THE SFC TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THROUGH SATURDAY AHEAD OF ANOTHER COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT AS A MID/UPPER SHORTWAVE TROUGH DIVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE ROCKY MTNS FROM THE PAC NORTHWEST. HAVE TRENDED TEMPERATURES UPWARD A COUPLE DEGREES FOR SATURDAY AS THERE MAY BE SOME COMPRESSIONAL HEATING AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WE SHOULD HAVE GOOD SUNSHINE...AND CONTINUED WARM SOUTHERLY FLOW. HIGHS COULD BE NEAR 80 ON SATURDAY AS A RESULT. ABILENE/S RECORD HIGH FOR SATURDAY IS 81...WHICH COULD BE IN JEOPARDY. SAN ANGELO/S RECORD IS 85 WHICH SHOULD BE SAFE. TEMPERATURES WILL COOL BACK TO NEAR OR JUST BELOW NORMAL FOR SUNDAY AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE COLDEST AIR MAY NOT MAKE IT INTO THE AREA UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE GFS DEVELOPS STRONG SFC RIDGING BEHIND A DEEP TROUGH OVER MUCH OF THE CENTRAL U.S. AND REINFORCES THE COLD AIR ALREADY IN PLACE. THIS COULD BE SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAD THIS PAST WEEK. MOS GUIDANCE HAS COOLED THE FORECAST FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY FROM PREVIOUS RUNS TO WELL BELOW NORMALS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. WILL TREND TEMPERATURES DOWNWARD...BUT WILL NOT MAKE LARGE CHANGES 5 TO 7 DAYS OUT IN THE FORECAST. SEE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION THROUGHOUT THE NEXT 7 DAYS. SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 3 AM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...CALLAHAN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...FISHER...HASKELL... IRION...JONES...MCCULLOCH...NOLAN...RUNNELS...SAN SABA... SHACKELFORD...STERLING...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON...AND TOM GREEN. && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 3 AM THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: BROWN...CALLAHAN...COKE...COLEMAN...CONCHO...FISHER...HASKELL... IRION...JONES...MCCULLOCH...NOLAN...RUNNELS...SAN SABA... SHACKELFORD...STERLING...TAYLOR...THROCKMORTON...AND TOM GREEN. && 08/99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 225 PM CST WED NOV 30 2005 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-012030- FISHER-NOLAN-STERLING-COKE-RUNNELS-IRION-TOM GREEN-CONCHO- CROCKETT-SCHLEICHER-SUTTON-HASKELL-THROCKMORTON-JONES-SHACKELFORD- TAYLOR-CALLAHAN-COLEMAN-BROWN-MCCULLOCH-SAN SABA-MENARD-KIMBLE- MASON- 225 PM CST WED NOV 30 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH. THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY EXPIRES AT 6PM AS WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE TOWARDS SUNSET. WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE A FIRE DANGER ALSO EXISTS WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN THE 15 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE. THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR MUCH OF THE EDWARDS PLATEAU...CONCHO VALLEY AND BIG COUNTRY EXPIRES AT 5PM. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 drought, 1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought Conditions were beginning to develop across a large portion of West Central Texas by the end of December as the last good rains were received back in the middle of October.
The "Quail Valley" fire occurred just to the north of San Angelo during record warm temperatures in the 80s and relative humidities around 8 percent. This fire destroyed two structures and closed highway 277 for a time during the afternoon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, December 2005
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: 5483568, 5483569, 5483570, 5483571, 5483572, 5483573, 5483574, 5483567.