The drought ranged from extreme to exceptional mainly north of Interstate 20. This region has experienced the brunt of the drought since February 2011.
Every event with a place to put it; 21 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.
The drought ranged from extreme to exceptional mainly north of Interstate 20. This region has experienced the brunt of the drought since February 2011. The drought continued to expand over the remainder of West Central Texas.
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 Jan 31, 11:33 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1133 PM CST THU JAN 31 2013 .DISCUSSION... BEAUTIFUL FLIGHT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AVIATION BELOW HAS MORE INFORMATION. && .AVIATION... MODELS THIS CYCLE CONTINUE TO PRESENT VFR CONDITIONS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS FORECAST CYCLE. GUSTY SOUTH SURFACE WINDS BY NOON TOMORROW WILL BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE...AS THEY ARE TONIGHT...FOR TOMORROW NIGHT. HUBER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 529 PM CST THU JAN 31 2013/ DISCUSSION... EXPECT BEAUTIFUL FLIGHT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SEE AVIATION BELOW FOR DETAILS. AVIATION... PLAN FOR VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ASIDE FROM A FEW HIGH CLOUDS...LOOK FOR CLEAR SKIES. LIGHT AND VARIABLE SURFACE WINDS TONIGHT WILL AGAIN BE GUSTY FROM THE SOUTH BY NOON TOMORROW. HUBER PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 352 PM CST THU JAN 31 2013/ SHORT TERM... UPPER FLOW OVER THE FORECAST AREA WILL REMAIN WEST-NORTHWEST AHEAD OF A BUILDING UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN STATES. A WEAK COOL FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY TONIGHT AND THEN DISSIPATE FRIDAY AS SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE MAINLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT UNDER MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES WITH MORNING LOWS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 20S TO MID 30S. SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 10 TO 15 MPH FRIDAY AFTERNOON. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE 60S. 21 LONG TERM... AS LOW-LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES FRIDAY NIGHT...LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN SHOULD RESULT IN PATCHY LOW CLOUD DEVELOPMENT INTO OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES BY EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FRIDAY NIGHT. ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ON SATURDAY...REACHING THE INTERSTATE 10 CORRIDOR BY EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER BEHIND THIS FRONT. RETURN FLOW WILL DEVELOP ON SUNDAY AND CONTINUE SUNDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING LOW CLOUDS... ACROSS ROUGHLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR AREA. A RATHER WEAK COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL DRIFT SOUTH INTO OUR AREA ON MONDAY. ONLY A MINOR EFFECT ON TEMPERATURES IS INDICATED. TEMPERATURES SHOULD WARM INTO THE LOWER 70S FOR HIGHS SOUTH OF THIS FRONT. THE 12Z GFS AND ECMWF NOW BOTH GENERATE SOME PRECIPITATION IN OUR AREA NEXT WEDNESDAY. QUASI ZONAL FLOW ALOFT IS PROGGED BY THAT TIME WITH WEAK SHORTWAVES MOVING EAST INTO TEXAS AND THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BIT FURTHER CONSENSUS BEFORE ADDING POPS...BUT THIS IS SOMETHING WE ARE MONITORING. A STRONGER SHORWAVE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS THURSDAY...SENDING A COLD FRONT SOUTH INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BY THAT TIME THE BETTER MOISTURE IS PROGGED TO BE SHUNTED TO OUR EAST. 19 FIRE WEATHER... ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WITH MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE MID TEENS TO THE LOWER 20S. HOWEVER...SUSTAINED 20 FT WIND SPEEDS WILL REMAIN IN THE 10-15 MPH RANGE. 21 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ABILENE 33 65 39 63 35 / 0 0 5 5 5 SAN ANGELO 30 67 42 65 36 / 0 0 5 5 5 JUNCTION 28 68 42 69 35 / 0 0 5 5 5 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && HUBER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 249 PM CST THU JAN 31 2013 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-012100- 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- 249 PM CST THU JAN 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
21 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Haskell County in the exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Throckmorton County in the exceptional drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed the northeast corner of Fisher County in the exceptional drought category, while the remaining part of the county was in the extreme drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed the north half of Jones County in the exceptional drought category, while the south half of the county was in the extreme drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Shackelford County in the extreme drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed the north half of Nolan County in the extreme drought category, while the south was in severe drought.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed the north half of Taylor County in the extreme drought category, while the south half was in severe drought.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Callahan County in the severe drought category. The northern most part of the county was in extreme drought.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Sterling County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Coke County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Runnels County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Brown County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed Irion County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Tom Green County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of McCulloch County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of San Saba County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Menard County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Kimble County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed all of Mason County in the severe drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Schleicher County in the extreme drought category.
The U.S. Drought Monitor placed most of Sutton County in the extreme drought category.
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, February 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: 436510, 436512, 436514, 436515, 436516, 436517, 436518, 436520, 436521, 436523, 436524, 436525, 436526, 436527, 436528, 436529, 436530, 436531, 436532, 436533, 436534.