Drought, Angelina
- When
- November 13, 12:00 AM CST to November 30, 11:59 PM CST
- Where
- Angelina forecast zone
- Reported by
- Drought Monitor
- Coordinates
- 31.255, -94.612 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought in Texas, November 13 to 30, 2025
Above normal temperatures and a prolonged period of below normal rainfall was observed across Angelina County Texas throughout October, which continued through the first three weeks of November. In fact, during a nearly four week period from the final week of October to the third week of November, less than a quarter inch fell across much of the county.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
Above normal temperatures and a prolonged period of below normal rainfall was observed across Angelina County Texas throughout October, which continued through the first three weeks of November. In fact, during a nearly four week period from the final week of October to the third week of November, less than a quarter inch fell across much of the county. These conditions significantly dried soil moisture, resulting in severe (D2) flash drought conditions developing across the county during mid to late November, before heavy rain of near or in excess of three inches fell between the 24th-29th. This was enough to improve drought conditions back to moderate by the first week of December.
What forecasters said that day
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 12, 6:27 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- Issued at 1027 AM CST Wed Nov 12 2025
- Milder temperatures will continue through the end of the work week with a warm weekend ahead.
- Rain chances will be hard to come by until maybe the early to middle part of next week with the arrival of our next trough.
- Wildfire concerns will continue through the forecast period with daytime/afternoon southerly wind gusts even with somewhat higher afternoon humidity.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 6:27 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Shreveport LA 627 PM CST Wed Nov 12 2025 ...New AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 1027 AM CST Wed Nov 12 2025 - Milder temperatures will continue through the end of the work week with a warm weekend ahead. - Rain chances will be hard to come by until maybe the early to middle part of next week with the arrival of our next trough. - Wildfire concerns will continue through the forecast period with daytime/afternoon southerly wind gusts even with somewhat higher afternoon humidity. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 1027 AM CST Wed Nov 12 2025 Pleasant...albeit dry conditions prevailing currently across the Four State Region and those conditions will continue through the remainder of the work week and into the upcoming weekend. Broad upper troughing aross the Great Lakes area into New England is countered by upper level ridging across the Intermountain West currently. At the surface, southerly to southwesterly low level winds prevailing across the Southern Plains into the Lower Miss Valley which is of course a warming wind with temperatures averaging some 10 to 15 degrees warmer at the Noon hour today compared to 24 hours ago. Dewpoints have really responded as well with values averaging some 20 to 30 degrees higher than this time yesterday. If you like warm November temperatures, then this forecast is for you because the warmer readings are here to stay awhile as the upper ridge across the Intermountain West will migrate eastward by the weekend, flattening out slightly as it does. A very progressive trough will traverse the Central Plains into the Ohio Valley this weekend and it will have a weak cold front associated with it but the front will likely not have enough strength to make it into even our northern most zones. In the wake of this weak trough, upper ridging will continue to dominate into early next week. Max temperatures this weekend across our west and southwest half will likely flirt with the middle 80s which is some 15 to 20 degrees above normal for the middle of November with low temperatures running some 10 to 15 degrees above normal as well. There continues to be considerable discrepancies with long term progs with the development and subsequent ejection of our next Great Basin trough next week. The slower EC ensembles and specifically, the EC-AIFS seems to be the preferred model or models of choice with other operational models (including the NBM) having to play catchup so to speak. All this to say while small pops are currently in the forecast by Monday into Tuesday of next week, would not be surprised to see these higher rain chances get delayed even further into next week. 13 && .AVIATION... (00Z TAFS) Issued at 541 PM CST Wed Nov 12 2025 For the 13/00Z TAF update, VFR vis/cigs are expected until 13/10Z as MVFR cigs are expected to build in from the south across the southern half of the airspace through 13/18Z. Patchy FG/IFR cigs cannot be ruled out in this timeframe, especially for KLFK as southerly surface winds continue. /16/ && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Issued at 1027 AM CST Wed Nov 12 2025 Spotter activation is not expected at this time. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 58 81 60 82 / 0 0 0 0 MLU 55 78 56 80 / 0 0 0 0 DEQ 48 77 55 79 / 0 0 0 0 TXK 55 79 60 81 / 0 0 0 0 ELD 51 76 55 79 / 0 0 0 0 TYR 57 80 60 81 / 0 0 0 0 GGG 55 81 58 81 / 0 0 0 0 LFK 57 81 58 82 / 0 0 0 0 && .SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AR...None. LA...None. OK...None. TX...None. && DISCUSSION...13 AVIATION...16
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Drought
- A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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Sources
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: 1298799.