Persistent hot, dry, and windy weather continued to result in critical fire weather conditions throughout the month of June.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 hot, dry, and windy weather continued to result in critical fire weather conditions throughout the month of June.
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 Jun 22, 10:44 AM CST, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1144 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2011 .DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW... && .AVIATION... CONVECTION HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING AND DO NOT EXPECT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL REMAIN EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 8 TO 12 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON...THEN BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE OVERNIGHT. STRATUS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU BY 10Z. CONFIDENCE REMAINS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE MVFR CEILINGS AT THIS TIME. SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 12 TO 16 KNOTS BY 15Z THURSDAY WITH VFR CONDITIONS PREVAILING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 639 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2011/ DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION SECTION. AVIATION... PATCHY LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. CARRYING A SCATTERED CLOUD GROUP AT KJCT AND KBBD. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PREVAIL TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA ROUGHLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM OZONA TO RICHLAND SPRINGS... MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. CONFIDENCE AT THIS TIME IS TOO LOW FOR A MENTION IN THE AREA TAFS. LIGHT WINDS WILL BECOME SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 405 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2011/ SHORT TERM... AREA OF CONVECTION HAS MOVED OUT OF OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES BUT A FEW LIGHT LINGERING SHOWERS REMAIN OVER THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY. THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY...WHICH SERVED AS THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT YESTERDAY...WILL WASH OUT TODAY WITH WINDS BECOMING SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR AREA. CARRYING SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES TODAY. WITH AN INCREASE IN LOW AND MID-LEVEL MOISTURE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A WEAK EMBEDDED DISTURBANCE ALOFT...COULD HAVE SOME SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THAT AREA WITH DIURNAL HEATING AND DESTABILIZATION OF THE AIRMASS. FARTHER TO THE NORTH...RAIN CHANCE LOOKS LOOKS SLIM WITH LACK OF A SURFACE AND UPPER FOCUS...AND WITH THE ATMOSPHERE WORKED OVER FROM CONVECTION YESTERDAY EVENING. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO STAY UNDER 100 DEGREES TODAY FOR MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE MAIN EXCEPTION WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY...WHERE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER IS EXPECTED. HAVE A LINGERING SLIGHT CHANCE POP THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF OUR AREA. LONG TERM... COULD SEE A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ON THURSDAY .SOUTHEAST OF A LINE...FROM BROWNWOOD TO SAN ANGELO TO SONORA BEFORE THE UPPER RIDGE ALLOWS THE CAPPING INVERSION TO RETURN ON FRIDAY. LATEST SOUNDINGS INDICATED SB CAPE VALUES WILL BE AROUND 2500 J/KG ON THURSDAY WITH VERY LITTLE OR NO CAPPING INVERSION. PLAN TO INSERT ISOLATED 10 POPS FOR THURSDAY. BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF PROG A LARGE UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO WC TX FROM NORTHERN MEXICO THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. THIS UPPER HIGH SHOULD ALLOW TEMPS TO RISE TO NEAR OR ABOVE 100 OVER MOST LOCATIONS. AS THE UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AND NORTH OF WC TX BY TUESDAY...IT WILL ALLOW AN INCREASE OF MOISTURE IN THE LOWER TROP FROM THE SURFACE TO MID LEVELS AS THE WINDS GRADUALLY BECOME SOUTHEASTERLY. THIS SHOULD LEAD TO SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS WITH ADDITIONAL FAIR WEATHER CUMULUS. WENT WITH THE WARMEST TEMPS ACROSS THE WEST AND FAR NORTHERN COUNTIES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 97 74 98 76 99 / 10 10 10 10 0 SAN ANGELO 98 73 100 73 101 / 10 10 10 10 0 JUNCTION 94 72 97 74 97 / 20 20 10 10 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && DANIELS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 554 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2011 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-231100- 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- 554 AM CDT WED JUN 22 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OZONA TO RICHLAND SPRINGS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Trent Mesa Wildfire was located 9 miles southwest of Merkel. The fire threatened numerous wind turbines as it burned about 644 acres.
The Alexander Wildfire was located 2 miles southeast of Nugent. The fire threatened livestock and several homes but they were all saved as it burned about 644 acres.
The Matthews Ranch Wildfire was located 18 miles southwest of Throckmorton and was started by an electrical short. The fire burned about 3,024 acres.
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: 320920, 320922, 320932.