Persistent dry weather over the summer has resulted in the development of severe drought conditions developing across the Northwest Hill Country.
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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 episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Persistent dry weather over the summer has resulted in the development of severe drought conditions developing across the Northwest Hill Country.
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 31, 10:52 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1152 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 .DISCUSSION... EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SEE AVIATION BELOW. && .AVIATION... WATCH FOR PATCHY FOG ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AROUND SUNRISE. OTHERWISE...LOOK FOR NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IMPACTS TO FLIGHT OPERATIONS. 23/HUBER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 658 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008/ DISCUSSION... EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO DOMINATE WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SEE AVIATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. AVIATION... A FEW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL AROUND SUNSET THIS EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM HASKELL TO JUNCTION. AFTER SUNSET...LOOK FOR CLEARING SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS. BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON...WATCH FOR SURFACE WINDS FROM THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 8 KNOTS TO BECOME EAST TO NORTHEAST AS HURRICANE GUSTAV MOVES CLOSER TO TEXAS. 23/HUBER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 328 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008/ SHORT TERM... WEAK UPPER LOW THAT HAS BEEN COMBINING WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO GIVE THE AREA SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATELY...HAS CONTINUED ITS VERY SLOW MOVEMENT TO THE WEST. FOR THAT REASON...AND CURRENT LACK OF ACTIVITY COMPARED TO THE PAST FEW DAYS BY THIS TIME IN THE AFTERNOON...HAVE FURTHER TRENDED PRECIPITATION CHANCES DOWN FOR TONIGHT. WE MAY STILL SEE SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE AREA TONIGHT...BUT BELIEVE THAT MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE FARTHER WEST...CLOSER TO THE PARENT LOW. IN ADDITION... DRYING/SUBSIDENT AIR WEST OF HURRICANE GUSTAV CAN BE SEEN INVADING WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AT THIS TIME. WINDS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY LIGHT AND SOUTHERLY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH A WEAK SFC PRESSURE GRADIENT. LONG TERM... FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY...THE DRY SUBSIDENT AIR ON THE WEST SIDE OF GUSTAV WILL BE OVER MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TX. THE SURFACE WIND FIELD WILL BEGIN TO BE INFLUENCED AS EARLY AS TOMORROW AFTERNOON BY GUSTAV WITH WINDS TURNING TO A MORE EASTERLY OR NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION...BUT STILL REMAIN RATHER LIGHT. ON TUESDAY...A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO WEST TX AND EASTERN NM. IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THAT THIS FRONT WILL BE /HELPED/ SOUTH BY NORTHERLY FLOW ON THE WEST SIDE OF GUSTAV. AS THE FRONT MAKES ITS WAY SOUTH INTO WEST TX...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT ALONG THE FRONT IN SOUTHEASTERN NM...UPPER TRANS PECOS...AND PARTS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN. HOWEVER FOR WEST CENTRAL TX...HAVE OPTED TO KEEP POPS FAIRLY LOW...CONSIDERING THE CURRENT TRACK OF HURRICANE GUSTAV AND SUBSIDENCE ON GUSTAV/S WESTERN SIDE. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHERLY... AND THE DRIER CONTINENTAL AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY. HAVE AGAIN VEERED FORECAST TOWARD THE GFS SOLUTION...TEMPERING DEWPOINT VALUES FROM THE GFS. THIS IS DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF TROPICAL MOISTURE WORKING AROUND GUSTAV AND INTO OUR AREA MIXING WITH THE DRIER AIR MASS FROM THE NORTH. SINCE WE HAVE GONE WITH BRINGING THE FRONT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY...WILL HAVE SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK. HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S FOR THE NORTHERN 2/3 OF THE CWA...AND AROUND 90 SURROUNDING THE INTERSTATE 10 CORRIDOR. LATER IN THE WEEK...IF GUSTAV MEANDERS TO THE SOUTHWEST INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL TX...THE REGION MAY SEE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS. RIGHT NOW...WITH THE PATH AFTER LANDFALL TOO UNCERTAIN...WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY AND UPDATE AS THE TRACK BECOMES MORE CLEAR. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 69 94 69 92 66 / 10 10 10 10 10 SAN ANGELO 67 93 69 93 68 / 10 10 10 10 10 JUNCTION 68 95 69 96 69 / 10 10 10 10 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 23/HUBER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 204 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-011915- 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- 204 PM CDT SUN AUG 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY EVENING...MAINLY OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY...AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH. 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.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe Drought conditions (D2) which developed as below normal rainfall continued across the region. Range and pasture conditions were extremely poor due to the dry conditions. Supplemental feeding of livestock has also increased. Stock tank levels continued to drop.
Severe Drought conditions (D2) which developed as below normal rainfall continued across the region. Range and pasture conditions were extremely poor due to the dry conditions. Supplemental feeding of livestock has also increased. Stock tank levels continued to drop.
Severe Drought conditions (D2) which developed as below normal rainfall continued across the region. Range and pasture conditions were extremely poor due to the dry conditions. Supplemental feeding of livestock has also increased. Stock tank levels continued to drop.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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