According to the Texas Crop Weather Report issued June 28 by the Texas A&M Agriculture Program, the following agricultural impacts were noted across West Central Texas as extremely hot, dry, and windy conditions continued. A few areas reported rain but it did little to alleviate the drought.
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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.
According to the Texas Crop Weather Report issued June 28 by the Texas A&M Agriculture Program, the following agricultural impacts were noted across West Central Texas as extremely hot, dry, and windy conditions continued. A few areas reported rain but it did little to alleviate the drought. Cotton planting was completed in most areas but the crop will need rain in order to make a stand. Even irrigated cotton was suffering from the extreme heat. Hay was not growing and producers were grazing hay fields to get what forage use they could. Stock water tank levels dropped further and many were completely dry, ranches were out of grasses for grazing and water. Most producers could not afford to provide supplemental feed to livestock any longer and they continued to cull herds. Wildlife was also suffering as many animals were foraging for food and water in towns.
Very dry conditions persisted across West Central Texas since the Winter of 2010. Over the last 273 days, from October 1 of 2010 through June 30 of 2011, Abilene had measurable rain on 25 Days, while San Angelo had measureable rain on 13 days and|Junction had 20 days that measureable rain was reported.
From October 1 of 2010 thru June 30 of 2011, the state climatologist stated that this was one of the driest periods on records for the entire state of Texas. The following precipitation amounts were recorded in Abilene, San Angelo and Junction for that period.
Abilene received 9.35 inches of rain. Normal rainfall for this period is about 16.54 inches
San Angelo received 6.43 inches of rain. Normal rainfall for this period is about 14.81 inches.
Junction received 3.51 inches of rain. Normal rainfall for this period is about 17.38 inches. On July 2...Junction received an additional 0.17 of an inch of rain.
On June 28, the Department of Agriculture declared all of Texas a natural Disaster due to extreme heat, high winds and lack of rain.
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 31, 10:54 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1154 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011 .DISCUSSION... LOOK FOR VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SEE AVIATION FORM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. && .AVIATION... LATEST MODELS STILL DO NOT INDICATE MUCH CHANCE FROM STRATUS RETURN OVERNIGHT. THUS...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO ANY OF THE FIVE TERMINALS. HUBER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 718 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011/ DISCUSSION... LOOK FOR VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SEE AVIATION SECTION BELOW FOR DETAINS AVIATION... LATEST SATELLITE AND WSR-88D DATA INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND NEAR A SURFACE DRYLINE WELL TO THE WEST OF OUR AREA. THUS...EXPECT WEATHER NIL FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AS FOR STRATUS RETURN TOMORROW MORNING...I DECIDED TO CONTINUE VFR CONDITIONS FOR ALL TERMINALS THIS FORECAST CYCLE. HUBER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 427 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011/ SHORT TERM... AS OF 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON A COLD FRONT COULD BE SEEN IN VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY EXTENDING FROM NORTHWEST TEXAS W/SW INTO THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. THIS FRONT MAY BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR OVERNIGHT. ONE FACTOR WORKING AGAINST RAIN CHANCES ARE THAT MID LEVEL RIDGING IS MOVING INTO THE AREA AT THE MOMENT. HOWEVER...SHORTWAVE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FLOW MAY STILL BE ENOUGH TO HELP INITIATE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AND INCREASING SOUTHERLY FLOW INTO AND OVER THE TOP OF THE STAGNANT SFC BOUNDARY WILL HELP INCREASE CONVERGENCE AND MOISTURE CONTENT FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO FEED OFF OF OR INITIATE FROM AS WELL. ALL THAT SAID...WILL KEEP GENERALLY SLIGHT CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST FOR AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A STERLING CITY TO CROSS PLAINS LINE FOR TONIGHT. WITH THE INCREASING MOISTURE AND SOUTHERLY FLOW OVERNIGHT...EXPECT ANOTHER WARM NIGHT WITH TEMPERATURES LIKELY ONLY FALLING INTO THE LOWER 70S MOST AREAS. ON WEDNESDAY...WE WILL SEE SIMILAR CONDITIONS. WINDS WILL REMAIN SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTERLY...BUT WE SHOULD DRY OUT FURTHER TOMORROW AND HAVE LESS CLOUDCOVER. THIS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO WARM INTO THE MID 90S ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. RAIN CHANCES SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE AREA. LONG TERM... EXPANSIVE UPPER HIGH...CENTERED OVER THE MID-SOUTH...WILL REMAIN THE DOMINANT WEATHER INFLUENCE ACROSS OUR REGION THROUGH LATE WEEK. A MID-SUMMER LIKE PATTERN WILL ENSUE WITH VERY LITTLE CHANGES IN DAILY TEMPERATURE AND WINDS. THE 850 MB THERMAL RIDGE WILL REMAIN CENTERED TO OUR WEST. EXPECT AFTERNOON HIGHS TO BE MAINLY IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S ACROSS OUR AREA.WITH OVERNIGHT MOISTENING OF THE BOUNDARY LAYER...COULD HAVE SOME PATCHY LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT NORTH INTO OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES. THE GFS INDICATES THAT THE BEST COVERAGE OF LOW CLOUDS WOULD BE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE GFS TRIES TO BRING AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WEST INTO TEXAS FROM THE GULF COAST STATES SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...AROUND SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER HIGH. SOME MID-LEVEL MOISTURE AND LIGHT QPF IS SHOWN WITH THIS SYSTEM...MAINLY OVER EAST TEXAS. THE ECMWF HINTS AT A DISTURBANCE ENTERING THE LOWER TEXAS COAST FROM THE WESTERN GULF NEXT MONDAY. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY IN THE DETAILS AND THE DISTANCE OF OUR AREA FROM THESE FEATURES...KEEPING POPS BELOW 15 PERCENT AND NON-MENTIONABLE AT THIS TIME. FIRE WEATHER... ELEVATED TO NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...AND ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY. WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 20 MPH SUSTAINED FOR MOST OF THE AREA TOMORROW AFTERNOON. COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S...AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING TO AROUND 20 PERCENT...NEAR CRITICAL CONDITIONS WILL RESULT IN THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPID FIRE GROWTH FOR ANY ACCIDENTAL WILDFIRE STARTS. WHILE WE ARE STILL EXPECTING SOMEWHAT COOLER CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK...WINDS WILL REMAIN IN THE 10 TO 20 MPH RANGE WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ABLE TO DROP INTO THE 20 TO 30 PERCENT RANGE NEARLY EVERY DAY FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL EXPECTED...THE COMBINATION OF WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES...BREEZY WINDS...AND SOMEWHAT DRY RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL KEEP FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS AT LEAST ELEVATED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 71 94 69 95 69 / 10 10 0 0 0 SAN ANGELO 71 96 69 97 69 / 10 10 0 0 0 JUNCTION 72 94 65 94 68 / 10 10 10 0 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && HUBER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 956 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-020300- 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- 956 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. HUBER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
24 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Brown County in a severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Callahan County in a severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Runnels County in a severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Coke County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Concho County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Crockett County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Fisher County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Haskell County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Irion County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Jones County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Kimble County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Mason County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed McCulloch County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Menard County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Nolan County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed San Saba County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Schleicher County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Shackelford County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Sterling County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Sutton County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Taylor County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Throckmorton County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Tom Green County in an exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Coleman County in a severe drought category.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2011
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: 321409, 321410, 321412, 321413, 321414, 321415, 321417, 321418, 321420, 321422, 321423, 321424, 321425, 321426, 321427, 321429, 321430, 321431, 321432, 321433, 321435, 321436, 321437, 321438.