An isolated thunderstorm produced flash flooding in San Saba on July 15. A slow moving cold front resulted in a couple of supercell thunderstorms and a microburst producing severe thunderstorm across West Central Texas on July 16.
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An isolated thunderstorm produced flash flooding in San Saba on July 15. A slow moving cold front resulted in a couple of supercell thunderstorms and a microburst producing severe thunderstorm across West Central Texas on July 16. Other strong thunderstorms formed along the slow moving cold front on July 17, and resulted in flash flooding and a funnel cloud report in San Angelo.
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 Jul 15, 2:57 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 357 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2014 .SHORT TERM... (Tonight and Tomorrow) Current radar imagery indicating scattered showers and storms across the eastern Concho Valley and Heartland. The latest mesoanalysis has an axis of MLCAPES of around 2000 J/KG across this area. Otherwise...weather is pretty quiet across the remainder of West Central Texas. The current convective activity should continue through the remainder of this afternoon and mostly dissipate toward sunset. However, will keep slight chance POPS going for tonight across the area due to abundant moisture and weak instability. Skies will be partly cloudy with lows in the upper 60s to lower 70s. For Wednesday, low level southerly flow will return to West Central Texas ahead of the next cold front and upper level short wave. Temperatures will be a few degrees warmer with highs in the lower to mid 90s. Will keep the slight chance to chance POPS going, with the best chance of storms north of the I-20 corridor, mainly during the afternoon. However, looks the better coverage of convection will remain northwest of our area, across the TX Panhandle. .LONG TERM... (Wednesday night through Tuesday) Northwest flow aloft will continue through the weekend, becoming north or northeasterly by early next week. A strong disturbance will dive southeast from Colorado Wednesday night into Thursday. A weak cold front currently to our south will head back north during the day Wednesday and is expected to lie roughly from the panhandle though the Red River Valley. With south/southeasterly low-level flow lying underneath a northwest flow aloft, increasing ascent from the incoming disturbance, and a very moist atmosphere (PWATs of 1.75 to 2 inches) upstream MCS development is likely. Where exactly the warm front is positioned will be crucial to who gets rain in our area and how much. This will be further complicated by mesoscale influences. However, models have trended closer in these details, as they show an MCS developing Wednesday evening/overnight across the western Panhandle, dropping east to southeast. The ECMWF is slightly further south with the track of the MCS, compared to the GFS/NAM.. In either case, areas north of I-20 will be most in line to be affected. With increasing wind shear associated with the upper-level disturbance, 0-6 km shear values increase into the 30-40 kt range north of I-20. MUCAPEs are progged to remain above 1500 J/kg through the night. Severe weather is possible during the evening/overnight hours, with damaging wind would be the main threat, in addition to locally heavy rainfall. POPs were increased for Wednesday night/Thursday morning, especially across the north. Then the next question that comes to mind is where does the outflow boundary from the overnight MCS settle. The disturbance will still be in the area, with a outflow-reinforced cold front dropping south during the day. Moderate to strong instability may develop south of the front if sufficient heating can occur. The disturbance will still be in the area, placing us in the right entrance region of the upper-level jet. Shear values remain about the same as the night before. Mid-level lapse rates do approach/exceed 7 deg C/km during the day. Severe weather will be possible across mainly the eastern 2/3rds of the area. A sharp temperature gradient may also exist in the area, allowing differential heating to be an additional focus for convective development. Heading into the weekend, a 600 dam ridge will build across the west, with our area lying on the eastern edge of this ridge. Temperatures will warm back into the mid to upper 90s, possibly higher, depending where this ridge sets up. Drying aloft and at the surface will put an end to our rain chances this weekend and into next week. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Abilene 71 93 72 86 67 / 20 20 60 60 50 San Angelo 72 95 75 93 69 / 20 20 40 50 50 Junction 72 95 73 93 72 / 20 10 30 40 50 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21/Doll
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 244 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2014 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-161945- 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- 244 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ON THURSDAY...THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL FOR SOME SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ALSO...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:03 UTC.
4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported flooding across the City of San Saba, including Mill Pond Park and Live Oak Street.
A powerful microburst struck about 5 miles northeast of Grape Creek and produced one injury and extensive damage across the Indian Creek neighborhood located near the intersection of Glass Road and Grape Creek Road.
Shingles were blown off several residences, a single wide mobile home was moved off its blocks, and several windows of mobile homes and vehicles were broken by the wind-driven hail. Mobile home skirting was blown out by the strong thunderstorm winds. In addition, several outbuildings were destroyed, a large metal building housing large hay bales was also destroyed as the metal was strewn a couple of hundred yards into a nearby field.
A trained spotter reported hail accompanied by wind gusts to near 50 mph.
The Melvin postal worker reported damaging thunderstorm winds removed all of the roof decking from a residence, a hay barn was completely destroyed, a 100 year old oak tree was toppled, and two telephone poles were downed.
Law enforcement reported two trees down in Cross Plains.
The Cross Plains fire department reported numerous trees down or uprooted. The largest tree was 28 inches in diameter and 30 feet long. Power lines were also down.
A funnel cloud was reported 3 miles southwest of Cross Plains.
The broadcast media reported closed roads in the City of Abilene, including Mockingbird underpass, South 27th from Treadway to Jackson Street, and South 32nd from Treadway to Jackson Street.
Law enforcement reported several cars stalled in the City of Abilene due to high water from flash flooding.
Law enforcement reported a stalled car due to high water at the intersection of County Road 142 and County Road 134.
Numerous reports of a funnel cloud were received in the City of San Angelo.
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