A cold front stalled across West Central Texas, resulting in showers and thunderstorms. The thunderstorms resulted in hail and damaging winds.
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A cold front stalled across West Central Texas, resulting in showers and thunderstorms. The thunderstorms resulted in hail and damaging winds.
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 28, 4:59 PM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 559 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 .DISCUSSION... SEE THE 00Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE FROM NEAR VERNON...TO JAYTON...TO NEAR BIG SPRING AND WILL MOVE IN A GENERAL EASTWARD DIRECTION THIS EVENING...POTENTIALLY GROWING UPSCALE INTO A MULTICELL CLUSTER OVERNIGHT. BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS...THE GREATEST RISK FOR ANY TERMINAL IMPACTS WILL BE AT KABI. I HAVE INCLUDED A VCTS FROM 01-04Z AND WILL UPDATE WITH A TEMPO AS THE WINDOW OF IMPACT IS NARROWED. OTHER TERMINALS MAY BE TOO FAR SOUTH TO SEE ANY DIRECTION EFFECTS BUT WILL MAINTAIN A WEAK CU FIELD THIS EVENING WITH MID CLOUDS OVERNIGHT. SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT AT 8-12 KTS...BECOMING SOUTHWESTERLY BY MID MORNING. STORM CHANCES TOMORROW AFTERNOON WILL GENERALLY BE CONFINED TO KABI AND POINTS TO THE NORTH AND EAST. MVFR CIGS WERE RETAINED AT KJCT FOR A FEW HOURS AROUND SUNRISE TUESDAY MORNING BUT PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS ARE ANTICIPATED ELSEWHERE. JOHNSON && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 339 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012/ SHORT TERM... MAIN CHALLENGE IN THE SHORT TERM PERIOD WILL BE CONVECTIVE CHANCES THIS EVENING. CUMULUS FIELD IS DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR CHILDRESS TO JUST NORTH OF MIDLAND. SHORT RANGE AND MESOSCALE MODELS CONTINUE TO BREAK OUT CONVECTION ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. A CURSORY LOOK AT THE 18Z NAM REVEALS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS AFFECTING MAINLY THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY THIS EVENING...WITH THE GFS NOT TOO DISSIMILAR. WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS ACROSS THIS AREA THIS EVENING WITH SLIGHT POPS FARTHER SOUTH. MORE ISOLATED OR WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN TO OUR SOUTHWEST AND AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE NORTH EDWARDS PLATEAU. MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH 30 TO 40 KT OF SHEAR THIS EVENING WILL RESULT IN SEVERE POTENTIAL WITH ANY STORMS. MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS AFTER 03Z WHICH WILL MAY ALLOW ACTIVITY TO LINGER WELL INTO THE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...POSSIBLY AFFECTING PORTIONS OF THE HEARTLAND AFTER MIDNIGHT. ON TUESDAY...SHORT WAVE RIDGING WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA WITH THE LOW LEVEL THERMAL RIDGE STRENGTHENING/EXPANDING ACROSS WEST TEXAS. THIS MEANS HOT TEMPERATURES ONCE AGAIN WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS CLIMBING INTO THE 95 TO 100 DEGREE RANGE...WITH THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURES OVER WESTERN COUNTIES. 24 LONG TERM... ZONAL FLOW ALOFT BECOMES NW WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS AN UPPER TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THURSDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO HAVE DIFFICULTIES IN POSITION AND STRENGTH OF THE COLD FRONT THURSDAY. GFS MODEL HAS IT MOVING INTO THE I-20 CORRIDOR AROUND DAYBREAK THURSDAY AND I-10 AROUND 1 PM. KEEPING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS...IN DEEPER MOISTURE AND LIFT OVER THE FRONT. UPPER FLOW RETURNS TO ZONAL SATURDAY. LATEST GFS SHOWING STRONGER RETURN FLOW THIS WEEKEND...SO INCREASED HIGHS A COUPLE DEGREES. DRYLINE REMAINS WEST OF THE REGION...SO KEEPING RAIN CHANCES OUT AT THIS TIME THOUGH THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STORMS OVER EXTREME WESTERN SECTIONS. FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK...AS SHORTWAVE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE SW UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO BECOME WEAKER AND HAS VARIED SOLUTIONS AS TO ITS POSITION AS IT MOVES ACROSS TEXAS. WILL HOLD OFF ON ADDING POPS AT THIS TIME. FIRE WEATHER... WILL SEE ELEVATED FIRE CONDITIONS OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY AS 850 MB THERMAL RIDGE MOVES INTO THE REGION... AND DRYLINE MOVES JUST EAST OF AN IRAAN...ROBERT LEE... SWEETWATER... HASKELL LINE. 20 FOOT SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO AROUND 15 MPH...JUST UNDER CRITICAL VALUES. 04 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 71 95 71 97 69 / 40 10 10 10 10 SAN ANGELO 72 99 72 99 68 / 20 10 10 0 10 JUNCTION 72 95 73 95 71 / 10 10 10 10 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 25
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 458 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-291100- 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- 458 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR AREAS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM STERLING CITY...TO WINTERS...TO CROSS PLAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A HASKELL TO CROSS PLAINS LINE. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND PORTIONS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY. JOHNSON
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
630 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012
TXZ049-054-127-290030-
FISHER TX-NOLAN TX-TAYLOR TX-
630 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR
FISHER...NOLAN AND TAYLOR COUNTIES...
AT 628 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SWEETWATER...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SWEETWATER BY 640 PM CDT
LAKE SWEETWATER BY 645 PM CDT
TRENT BY 715 PM CDT
DIME 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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
TUESDAY MORNING FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3268 10020 3257 10014 3252 10014 3252 10011
3234 10000 3230 10048 3245 10060
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 235DEG 22KT 3243 10045The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.
15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported a 52 MPH wind gust in Throckmorton.
A large tree was reported down at Quail Hollow Apartments.
Power lines were down along Highway 351, between Abilene and Hamby.
A carport awning was blown onto a vehicle at Warwick Apartments, near U.S. Highway 83 and Arrowhead Drive.
There were reports of many large tree limbs, many power lines, and one power pole downed by the damaging wind across Abilene. This left many without power across the city.
The metal roof on a house was peeled back. In addition, numerous large tree limbs were reported broken, and a carport was damaged.
The public reported a wind gust to 65 MPH.
Power lines were reported down in Clyde causing numerous power outages.
The Throckmorton Volunteer Fire Department reported a 60 MPH wind gust.
The public estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
Broken tree limbs were reported in Throckmorton.
Hail broke several skylights in a home which resulted in minor cuts of a resident.
Law enforcement reported downed power lines and trees.
Pea to golf ball size hail was reported.
Hail fell from 12:08 to 12:15 AM CDT.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2012
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: 386394, 386380, 386381, 386390, 386382, 386387, 386386, 386389, 386392, 386383, 386388, 386385, 386391, 386384, 386378, 386372, 386393, 386373, 386374, 386376, 386375, 386379, 386377.