Thunderstorms developed in the morning hours across the Big Country and gradually intensified as they moved to the south. The thunderstorms produced very heavy rains across the Big Country.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Thunderstorms developed in the morning hours across the Big Country and gradually intensified as they moved to the south. The thunderstorms produced very heavy rains across the Big Country. Some of the thunderstorms became severe across the Concho Valley and the Heartland during the afternoon with marginally severe hail reported. Thunderstorms blossomed again during the nighttime and caused heavy rains that produced flash flooding along the Interstate 10 corridor.
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 May 24, 11:24 AM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1224 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2007 .AVIATION...NOT MUCH CHANGE TO THE GOING TAFS. JUST EXTENDED THE FORECAST AND CONTINUED TO SHOW GOOD CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. WITH SOME HEAVY AT TIMES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1155 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007/ UPDATE... UPDATED ZONES FOR FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. ALSO...INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF 5 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. MAY HAVE TO WATCH THE CONCHO VALLEY AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPC HAS A SLIGHT RISK ACROSS THIS AREA. 21 PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 948 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007/ UPDATE...WILL SEND AN UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS TO CATEGORICAL ACROSS MOST OF THE BIG COUNTRY AND ALSO INCREASED POPS FURTHER TO THE SOUTH TO LIKELY BY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE HEARTLAND AND HILL COUNTRY. IN ADDITION ADJUSTED QPF AMOUNTS SLIGHTLY. OTHERWISE NO OTHER CHANGES WERE MADE AT THIS TIME. BRAZZELL PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 734 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007/ UPDATE... SENT A QUICK UPDATE ABOUT 30 MINUTES AGO TO INCREASE POPS TO DEFINITE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY...AND INCREASE THE LIKELY POPS A LITTLE MORE AS WELL. AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS NOW MOVING INTO THE BIG COUNTRY. DOES NOT LOOK SEVERE BY ANY STRETCH...BUT SHOULD BRING SOME DECENT RAINFALL TOTALS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 626 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007/ AVIATION... COLD FRONT WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO KABI (ABILENE) AROUND 16Z...BEFORE BECOMING STATIONARY ALONG MERTZON...SAN ANGELO...BROWNWOOD LINE 18-19Z. STRATUS WITH MVFR CIGS HAS MOVED INTO MUSH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AT 11Z AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. MVFR CIGS AT KABI THROUGH MUCH OF TAF PERIOD...MAY SEE SOME IFR CIGS/VISIBILITIES WITH HEAVIER STORMS AFTER 16Z. MVFR CIGS SHOULD LEFT TO NEAR VFR BY 17-18Z ACROSS REST OF WC TEXAS...BUT THEN EXPECT MVFR CIGS/VISIBILITIES IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 18Z. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 331 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007/ SHORT TERM... COLD FRONT MAKING DECENT PROGRESS TOWARDS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING...EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF LUBBOCK TO CHILDRESS AT 3 AM. GIVEN CURRENT SPEED...FRONT SHOULD BE PUSHING INTO THE NORTHWEST BIG COUNTRY RIGHT AROUND 12Z AND SPREADING SOUTHWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE DAY. CONVECTION ALSO CONTINUES TO DEVELOP JUST NORTH OF THE FRONT...SO GIVEN SOME CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT AND SOME HEATING LATER TODAY...EXPECT AT LEAST SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS TO SPREAD SOUTHWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. FRONT TO DROP SOMEWHERE INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...STALL...AND THE BEGIN TO DISSIPATE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE AREA...AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS A GOOD BET FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. LONG TERM... ABOUT THE TIME THE EFFECTS FROM THE FRONT START TO END...UPPER TROUGH WANDERS INTO THE AREA TO KICK OFF MORE STORMS FOR THE WEEKEND. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY ON WHERE ALL OF THE FEATURES WILL END UP...WILL END UP BROAD BRUSHING POPS FOR MUCH OF THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 77 63 76 62 / 80 80 60 50 SAN ANGELO 81 64 78 63 / 60 60 60 50 JUNCTION 81 66 78 65 / 50 40 60 50 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR BROWN-CALLAHAN- COKE-COLEMAN-CONCHO-CROCKETT-FISHER-HASKELL-IRION-JONES-KIMBLE- MASON-MCCULLOCH-MENARD-NOLAN-RUNNELS-SAN SABA-SCHLEICHER- SHACKELFORD-STERLING-SUTTON-TAYLOR-THROCKMORTON-TOM GREEN. && 27/27/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 439 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-250945- 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- 439 AM CDT THU MAY 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH THE BIG COUNTRY THIS MORNING...THEN BECOME STATIONARY ALONG A BIG LAKE...SAN ANGELO...BROWNWOOD LINE IN THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THE COLD FRONT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HOWEVER MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A STERLING CITY...MERTZON...SONORA LINE WILL HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE WEAK STATIONARY FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS WEEKEND INTO MEMORIAL DAY...BRINGING A GOOD CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. AGAIN...WHILE THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AN ISOLATED STORM COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY POSSIBLY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:54 UTC.
5 flash flood, 5 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Four feet of water was reported over the access road of Interstate 20 near Clyde.
Quite a bit of urban flooding was reported on the eastern side of Abilene along with several street closures.
Water was reported over the road at the intersection of 2111 and Highway 83.
Highway 2129 was closed off of Loop 312 due to high water across the road.
Highway 377 southwest of Juntion was closed due to flooding.
A bridge between Terrel and Crockett County in southwest Crockett County was impassable due to high water across the Pecos River.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2007
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: 35603, 35604, 35605, 35606, 35607, 35608, 35609, 35610, 35611, 35612, 35613.