Afternoon thunderstorms developed across portions of West Central Texas. A few of the storms became severe and produced damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
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Afternoon thunderstorms developed across portions of West Central Texas. A few of the storms became severe and produced damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
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 23, 2:18 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 318 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 .SHORT TERM... The subtropical ridge remains centered over the northern panhandle area this afternoon with southeasterly low-level winds continuing to advect gulf moisture into the region. Convective activity started earlier today with isolated showers and thunderstorms occurring over most of the forecast area early this afternoon. Activity should continue for the remainder of the afternoon and into the evening hours, dissipating later this evening. There is the potential for localized heavy rain, dangerous lightning and gusty winds in the stronger storms. Tomorrow, the center of the subtropical ridge will drift eastward toward the mid-Mississippi valley helping a tropical wave over the gulf just off the southern tip of Texas to move west over south Texas, resulting in enhanced moisture flow into southern and central Texas. This will keep the chance for shower and thunderstorm activity over the forecast area through the afternoon and evening hours. Morning lows tomorrow will be in the lower 70s with afternoons highs tomorrow in the lower to mid 90s. .LONG TERM... Currently, there is an upper level ridge centered near the TX/OK panhandles region. An upper level low is moving northwestward on the southwest side of this ridge through north central Mexico, and a weak tropical trough/upper level low is moving slowly west through the northern Gulf of Mexico. By Saturday night, the upper level ridge will be sprawled across the Central and Southern Plains. This will keep the area in moist easterly flow through early next week, so we will likely continue to see isolated showers and thunderstorms each afternoon and evening, and we will keep that basic forecast going. We already have precipitable water values in excess of 1.5 inches, and as the tropical wave moves west into Texas, we will likely see values remain at or above that value through early next week. So, we will continue the slight chance for showers and thunderstorms for most of the area through Monday afternoon and evening. By Tuesday, the upper level ridge is expected to meander back to the west/southwest, exerting more influence over Texas, and likely pushing rain chances farther south, so we have kept a slight chance in the forecast Tuesday afternoon, but only across areas south of the Interstate 10 corridor. After Tuesday with the ridge remaining centered in the southern KS and OK area, have kept rain chances out of the forecast through the end of the week, and temperatures warm in the mid to upper 90s. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Abilene 73 94 72 93 73 / 20 20 10 20 10 San Angelo 71 95 71 94 72 / 20 20 10 20 20 Junction 71 95 72 92 72 / 20 20 10 20 20 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 15/20
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 247 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-242000- 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- 247 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND LOCALIZED GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO MONDAY ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALIZED GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 15
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 257 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 TXZ140-232030- BROWN TX- 257 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR BROWN COUNTY... POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... HEAVY RAINFALL GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AT 253 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF BANGS...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROWNWOOD...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE BROWNWOOD AND LAKE BROWNWOOD NEAR THRIFTY BY 310 PM CDT THRIFTY BY 320 PM CDT BANGS BY 330 PM CDT POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE... SOME BROKEN TREE BRANCHES... ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES LIKELY... A FEW LOOSE OBJECTS TOPPLED... HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS... LAT...LON 3164 9920 3187 9920 3181 9899 3169 9899 TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 078DEG 8KT 3174 9904 15
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 336 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 TXZ139-140-232115- COLEMAN TX-BROWN TX- 336 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR COLEMAN AND BROWN COUNTIES... AT 332 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TRICKHAM...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SANTA ANNA...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... US-67 NEAR THE COLEMAN-BROWN COUNTY LINE BY 340 PM CDT TRICKHAM BY 345 PM CDT SANTA ANNA AND SHIELDS BY 415 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. LAT...LON 3155 9954 3182 9949 3172 9908 3154 9911 TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 099DEG 8KT 3165 9920 04
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 341 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 TXZ077-232115- SCHLEICHER TX- 341 PM CDT FRI AUG 23 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR SCHLEICHER COUNTY... POTENTIAL STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL AT 338 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF US-190 AND RANCH ROAD 2084...OR ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF MENARD...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. POTENTIAL STORM IMPACTS INCLUDE... A FEW WEAK BRANCHES BROKEN... AN ISOLATED POWER OUTAGE POSSIBLE... HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE INTERSECTION OF US-190 AND RANCH ROAD 2084 BY 415 PM CDT LAT...LON 3075 10041 3097 10042 3094 10013 3078 10015 TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 088DEG 8KT 3086 10019 04
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:43 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous mesquite tree limbs up to 1 foot in diameter were downed in Foster Park.
A microburst occurred over Roby at approximately 730 PM CDT. Two large, south-facing windows at the Roby City Hall were blown in and several trees were uprooted within the city limits. An outbuilding was destroyed on the south side of town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2013
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: 475087, 475089.