S. Drought Monitor, severe drought continues to impact the Big Country, while severe to extreme drought conditions continue to affect parts of the Northern Edwards Plateau and the Northwest Hill Country.
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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.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, severe drought continues to impact the Big Country, while severe to extreme drought conditions continue to affect parts of the Northern Edwards Plateau and the Northwest Hill Country. With recent rainfalls, there has been some improvement in the drought but lake levels remain quite low across the region.
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 31, 9:58 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1058 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2014 .AVIATION... /06Z TAFS/ MVFR ceilings may develop at KABI, KBBD, and KJCT overnight. VFR conditions will dominate the weather at all terminals after 15Z Sunday. The winds will gust to near 20 kts across our northern terminals Sunday, with light winds expected elsewhere. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 632 PM CDT MAY 31 2014/ AVIATION... /00Z TAFS/ MVFR ceilings may develop at KABI, KBBD, and KJCT overnight. VFR conditions will dominate the weather at all terminals after 15z. Winds will gust to near 20 kts across our northern terminals, with light winds expected elsewhere. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 350 PM CDT MAY 31 2014/ SHORT TERM... The primary focus of the short term forecast is the chance of rainfall across the southeastern portions of the forecast area. The upper level cyclone, which brought copious amount of rainfall to to West Central Texas, stalled on the Texas Louisiana border and has been retrograding the past few days. Visible satellite shows cumulus developing from far east Texas west toward the forecast area. Current radar images reveal scattered showers mainly across central and eastern Texas. Forecast models reveal diminishing chances as they continue to push precipitation southeast. GFS maintains some precipitation, though primarily across portions of the Northwest Hill Country. For this reason, PoPs were reduced to just southeast of a line from Brownwood to Junction. Through Sunday, the upper level cyclone will migrate south into the gulf of Mexico, removing the last chances of rainfall for the short term. Meanwhile, an upper level ridge will build into north central Mexico, and far west Texas. As a result of the subsidence from the anticyclone, an 850 mb thermal ridge will strengthen and build east into West Central Texas. Tweaked temperatures slightly today, cooling eastern portions of the forecast area, as cloud cover has increased. Regardless, expect afternoon high temperatures to be slightly above normal in the upper 80s to lower 90s through the weekend. Winds will be from the northeast today, veering to the southeast by Sunday. LONG TERM... .A slight chance of storms in the Big Country late next week... Dry and warming conditions into Thursday next week, as an upper ridge builds into the region. Lee surface trough over West Texas will occasionally bring gusty southerly winds in the afternoons to the Big Country and western Concho Valley. Friday into Saturday, an upper trough moving east along the northern periphery of the upper ridge, combined with a weak front boundary along the Red River, may bring a few thunderstorms to the Big Country. Keeping shower and thunderstorm chances at a minimal 20 percent given uncertainty in the extended period. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Abilene 68 91 71 94 72 / 5 5 0 0 0 San Angelo 69 94 71 96 70 / 5 5 0 0 0 Junction 68 91 71 92 70 / 5 5 0 0 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 21
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 312 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2014 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-012015- 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- 312 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SOUTH AND EAST OF A JUNCTION...TO BROWNWOOD LINE. STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
18 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Nolan County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Jones County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Taylor County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Callahan County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Fisher County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Shackelford County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Haskell County was in an extreme drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Throckmorton County was in an extreme drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Brown County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Menard County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the northeast section of Coleman County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the southeast part of Schleicher County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of Mason County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the eastern half of San Saba County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the southeast part of Concho County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the western part of McCulloch County was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the southeast part of Sutton County was in extreme drought while the rest of the county was in a severe drought.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of Kimble County was in a severe drought while the southwest part of the county was in an extreme drought.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2014
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: 530853, 530854, 530856, 530857, 530858, 530859, 530861, 530863, 530864, 530865, 530866, 530878, 530879, 530881, 530882, 530883, 530885, 530887.