A cold front interacting with a moist airmass and an upper level disturbance produced a bow echo that initiated along the Red River. The bow echo moved rapidly south towards Haskell, Abilene, Albany, and San Angelo and produced some damaging wind gusts over 60 mph at times.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
A cold front interacting with a moist airmass and an upper level disturbance produced a bow echo that initiated along the Red River. The bow echo moved rapidly south towards Haskell, Abilene, Albany, and San Angelo and produced some damaging wind gusts over 60 mph at times. The bow echo eventually collided with a wildfire that was in progress just north of Albany.
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 Sep 2, 2:37 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 337 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 .SHORT TERM... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM SAN ANGELO TO JUNCTION...FROM EARLIER CONVECTION THIS MORNING IN CENTRAL TEXAS. DUE TO THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT...THE MAIN THREATS FROM EARLY STORMS ARE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. THE STORMS ARE DIURNAL AND SHOULD DISSIPATE EARLY THIS EVENING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. MAIN WEATHER THREAT STILL TO COME TONIGHT. STRONG COLD FRONT 50 MILES SOUTH OF AMARILLO WILL MOVE THROUGH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT. NAM BRINGS FRONT JUST NORTH OF A FISHER AND HASKELL COUNTIES AROUND 10 PM...ALONG I-20 AROUND MIDNIGHT...THEN ALONG A SAN ANGELO TO BROWNWOOD LINE 4 AM. THERE IS LOT OF MOISTURE AVAILABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. DAY 1 SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK INDICATES A SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-20. BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE THIS EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS FISHER... HASKELL...AND THROCKMORTON COUNTIES...WITH THREAT TRANSITIONING TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE MAINLY ALONG THE FRONT AND POST FRONTAL. DRIER AIR MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH FRIDAY. KEPT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CONCHO VALLEY...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OVER THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES. .LONG TERM... BY FRIDAY EVENING THE COLD FRONT WILL BE WELL SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA AS WILL ANY ASSOCIATED RAINFALL. LOOKING FOR AN UNSEASONABLY COOL START TO THE DAY ON SATURDAY WITH MORNING LOWS IN THE 50S ACROSS ALL OF THE CWA...AND AFTERNOON HIGHS WARMING GENERALLY TO THE UPPER 80S. THE 500MB HIGH WILL REMAIN CENTERED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS AREA INTO THE WEEKEND WITH THE FORECAST AREA REMAINING DRY AND UNDER A NORTH TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE LATE SUNDAY AS THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL LOW DIGS SOUTH INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES...DISPLACING THE UPPER HIGH TO THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES BY TUESDAY. GIVEN THE RESULTING MOISTURE FLOW AROUND THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER HIGH INTO PRIMARILY THE EASTERN HALF OF TEXAS...WE WILL SEE THE CHANCE OF RAINFALL RETURNING TO THE CWA BY LATE MONDAY. THE CHANCE OF RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF AS THE UPPER HIGH OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES BUILDS FURTHER WEST ALONG THE GULF COASTAL STATES TOWARD TEXAS. AS EAST AND CENTRAL TEXAS DRY OUT THROUGH THE END OF THE EXTENDED...THE MONSOON RAINS WILL RETURN TO EXTREME WEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT UPPER LEVEL LOW DIGGING INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 66 83 56 87 64 / 70 10 0 10 10 SAN ANGELO 68 84 57 88 64 / 60 20 10 10 10 JUNCTION 70 86 59 90 63 / 40 30 10 10 10 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 253 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-032000- 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- 253 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS EXCEEDING 60 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. ALSO...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE MAY NEED TO ACTIVATE SPOTTERS THIS EVENING IN THE BIG COUNTRY.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 415 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 TXZ077-078-022200- SCHLEICHER TX-SUTTON TX- 415 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SCHLEICHER AND SUTTON COUNTIES... AT 411 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES EAST OF ELDORADO...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE INTERSECTION OF RANCH ROAD 2596 AND RANCH ROAD 864 BY 500 PM CDT PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS... ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 441 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 TXZ113-114-127-128-022215- SHACKELFORD TX-JONES TX-TAYLOR TX-CALLAHAN TX- 441 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR SHACKELFORD...JONES...TAYLOR AND CALLAHAN COUNTIES... AT 435 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAMBY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABILENE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HAMBY BY 445 PM CDT PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS... ESPECIALLY THOSE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE PROPER ACTIONS SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:20 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire burned approximately 1000 acres that was eventually extinguished by heavy rain at around 11 PM CDT. For a brief period before the heavy rain arrived, strong thunderstorm winds of 50 to 60 mph caused the burning trees to spark.
Damaging thunderstorm winds flipped a camper trailer on U.S. Highway 380 near the Haskell and Throckmorton County line. The occupant sustained minor injuries.
The Abilene Police Department reported downed power lines and tree limbs down along the west side of Abilene. The downed power lines also resulted in power outages.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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