Following the passage of a Pacific cold front on January 8th, strong, gusty west winds occurred from midday through late evening. Winds shifted to the northwest with a secondary cold frontal passage in the evening, and winds remained gusty through the night.
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The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
Following the passage of a Pacific cold front on January 8th, strong, gusty west winds occurred from midday through late evening. Winds shifted to the northwest with a secondary cold frontal passage in the evening, and winds remained gusty through the night.
The highest wind gusts occurred mostly on January 8th, and were 50 mph or more at numerous locations. In addition, the Abilene Regional Airport reported a peak wind gust of 66 mph and the San Angelo Regional Airport reported a peak wind gust of 54 mph.
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 8, 5:24 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service San Angelo TX 524 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 ...New AVIATION... .SHORT TERM... (This evening through Tuesday) Issued at 114 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 Windy conditions will continue across West Central Texas into the overnight hours. An upper level low will track to our north this afternoon, then head toward Arkansas/Missouri Tuesday morning. This will help to keep winds fairly strong across the forecast area this afternoon and continuing into the overnight hours. Winds should steadily begin to decrease during the early morning hours Tuesday, but should remain breezy. A Wind Advisory is in effect through 6 AM Tuesday morning. Overnight lows will be in the low 30s, and these temperatures combined with the breezy conditions will result wind chill values in the upper teens to lower 20s by daybreak. The breezy conditiions will continue into the day Tuesday, although winds should begin to subside by late afternoon or early evening Tuesday. Highs on Tuesday will continue to be below seasonal normals, in the low to mid 50s. && .LONG TERM... (Tuesday night through next Monday) Issued at 142 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 Wednesday and Thursday will see unseasonably warm conditions across west central Texas as generally zonal flow aloft prevails. West-southwest downslope flow and mostly sunny skies will boost highs into the mid 60s to lower 70s. It will be breezy as well especially on Thursday as the next potent storm system/upper level low begins to dig into the Four Corners region. The aforementioned Four Corners low will swing out into the Plains Thursday night dragging a strong cold front into our area on Friday. Model guidance continues to come in mainly dry shunting the bulk of the moisture/QPF to our east as the base of the trough axis swings through. It will much colder on Friday with breezy north-northwest winds. Highs will range from the mid 40s in the northern Big Country to the mid 50s along the I-10 corridor. Expect widespread freezing temperatures on Saturday morning. Saturday will dry and cool, with temperatures mainly in the 50s. Sunday and beyond starts to get interesting as the next upper level storm system/upper low deepens as it dives down into the Rockies late in the weekend. There are indications this could be accompanied by an arctic airmass as a 1045+ surface high becomes dislodged from the Canadian prairies. Still quite a bit of uncertainty this far out with regards to timing and strength of this potential Arctic airmass/front. But we could be looking at the coldest temperatures of the season as we head into the MLK Day holiday. && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 522 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 VFR conditions expected for the next 24 hours at all terminals. Gusty west to northwest winds will continue through the overnight hours with the KABI, KSJT, and KBBD terminals seeing gusts of 35+ kts. Gusts at the southern sites will be lower - around 25 kts. Winds gradually begin to decrease through the day tomorrow before gusts come to an end tomorrow evening. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Abilene 32 51 33 64 / 0 0 0 0 San Angelo 32 53 32 65 / 0 0 0 0 Junction 33 54 30 65 / 0 0 0 0 Brownwood 31 51 30 63 / 0 0 0 0 Sweetwater 31 50 35 63 / 0 0 0 0 Ozona 31 51 31 63 / 0 0 0 0 Brady 34 51 33 64 / 0 0 0 0 && .SJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Wind Advisory until 6 AM CST Tuesday for Brown-Callahan-Coke- Coleman-Concho-Crockett-Fisher-Haskell-Irion-Jones-Kimble-Mason- McCulloch-Menard-Nolan-Runnels-San Saba-Schleicher-Shackelford- Sterling-Sutton-Taylor-Throckmorton-Tom Green. && SHORT TERM...Daniels LONG TERM....42 AVIATION...50
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service San Angelo TX 141 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-091945- 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- 141 PM CST Mon Jan 8 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of west central Texas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight A Wind Advisory remains in effect for all of West Central Texas through 6 AM Tuesday. Very strong west winds this afternoon will become northwest this evening. Elevated to near critical fire weather conditions are expected this afternoon from Big Lake to Mertzon to Eldorado southward to the I-10 corridor. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Tuesday morning, wind chill values will be in the upper teens to mid 20s as gusty northwest winds combine with temperatures near the freezing mark. Dress warm with several layers of clothing. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust of 66 mph was measured at the Abilene Regional Airport.
A mesonet observation site 2 miles north-northwest of Haskell measured a wind gust of 57 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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