Isolated thunderstorms produced microbursts winds in Abilene and Woodson.
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Isolated thunderstorms produced microbursts winds in Abilene and Woodson.
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 6, 2:42 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 342 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 .SHORT TERM... WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...SHOWING UP NICELY IN THE ENHANCED CU FIELD MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. STARTING TO SEE A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY AND SOUTHERN BIG COUNTRY. MEANWHILE...AN MCV IS SPINNING EAST ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY. MID LEVEL TEMPS STILL VERY WARM...BUT SEEING JUST ENOUGH CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY TO HELP THE STORMS DEVELOP. HAVE INSERTED POPS IN FOR AREAS MAINLY ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. MCV SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH EAST THAT POPS MAY NOT BE NEEDED ACROSS THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY...SO WILL LEAVE OUT FOR NOW. AS FOR TOMORROW...DONT EXPECT TO SEE MUCH MORE OF THE BOUNDARY LEFT...AND THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE MAY BE BUILDING BACK INTO PLACE AGAIN. WILL HOLD OFF ON POPS AND SEE WHATS LEFT. .LONG TERM... LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED IN OUR WEATHER THROUGH THE LONG TERM. UPPER LEVEL HIGH...WHICH WILL BECOME CENTERED ROUGHLY OVER SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI OR WESTERN KENTUCKY EARLY NEXT WEEK...WILL STILL HAVE A BROAD ENOUGH EXPANSE TO BE OUR DOMINANT INFLUENCE. THUS...RAIN CHANCES LOOK MINIMAL. PER THE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE FIELDS...COULD SEE SOME EARLY MORNING LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES EARLY NEXT WEEK...FOLLOWED BY A DIURNAL CUMULUS FIELD. LITTLE CHANGE IS INDICATED WITH THE 850 MB THERMAL PATTERN. LATER NEXT WEEK THE GFS SHIFTS THE CENTER OF THE UPPER HIGH INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST WHILE THE ECMWF HAS BROAD UPPER RIDGE FROM TENNESSEE VALLEY SOUTHWEST ACROSS TEXAS. LEANING MORE TOWARD PERSISTENCE WITH DAILY HIGHS LATER NEXT WEEK...WHICH IS A FEW DEGREES ABOVE MEX MOS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 76 100 75 99 75 / 20 10 10 10 10 SAN ANGELO 75 102 74 100 74 / 20 10 10 10 10 JUNCTION 74 100 73 99 74 / 10 10 10 10 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 07/19
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 306 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-072015- 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- 306 PM CDT FRI AUG 6 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITION...EXPECT HEAT INDEX VALUES THIS AFTERNOON TO REACH BETWEEN 100 AND 105 DEGREES. HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WITH THE VERY HOT TEMPERATURES TO PREVAIL THROUGH MUCH OF THE NEXT WEEK...ELEVATED HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL CONTINUE. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE HEAT RELATED ILLNESS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:25 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Damaging wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph with tree limbs down in the City of |Woodson.
Law Enforcement Officials reported downed power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2010
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: 258438, 258437.