Dangerously hot conditions are occurring today in southeast Oklahoma, the ArkLaTex, lower Mississippi Valley, and Puerto Rico. Hot temperatures surround this area throughout the southern U.S. Excessive Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories in effect. Excessive rainfall may lead to flash flooding today over parts of northern Alabama into eastern Tennessee and the Cascades. Read More >
NOUS44 KSJT 020423 PNSSJT PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1123 PM CDT SUN AUG 1 2004 ...AN UNUSUALLY COOL AND WET PERIOD OCCURRED LATE IN JULY... RAINFALL FOR JULY WAS ABOVE NORMAL FOR A LARGE PART OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. SOME LOCATIONS HOWEVER...ESPECIALLY IN THE WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY...NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN HEARTLAND...RECEIVED LESS THAN ONE INCH OF RAIN FOR THE MONTH. AT JUNCTION...THE TOTAL RAINFALL FOR JULY WAS ONLY 0.08 INCHES. TEMPERATURES AVERAGED BELOW NORMAL FOR JULY. AT ABILENE REGIONAL AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JULY WAS 80.4 DEGREES. THIS WAS 3.1 DEGREES BELOW THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 83.5 DEGREES. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR JULY WAS 1.55 INCHES. THIS WAS 0.15 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 1.70 INCHES. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 100 DEGREES OR MORE ON ONLY ONE DAY IN JULY. AT SAN ANGELO REGIONAL AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JULY WAS 81.4 DEGREES. THIS WAS 1.0 DEGREES BELOW THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 82.4 DEGREES. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR JULY AT THE SAN ANGELO REGIONAL AIRPORT WAS 2.18 INCHES. THIS WAS 1.08 INCHES ABOVE THE MONTHLY NORMAL OF 1.10 INCHES. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 100 DEGREES OR MORE ON TWO DAYS IN JULY. JULY 2004 WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS... JULY WEATHER IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS IS NORMALLY DOMINATED BY A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT...AND IS NORMALY HOT AND DRY. AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE REGION EXERTED ITS INFLUENCE DURING MUCH OF THE MONTH. A FEW EXCEPTIONS TO THIS PATTERN OCCURRED...MOST NOTABLY LATE IN THE MONTH. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH...THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM RETRACTED A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE WEST. THIS SET UP A NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...AND ALLOWED A WEAK COLD FRONT TO MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO THE REGION ON THE 17TH BEFORE DISSIPATING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AND MOVED SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THE 18TH AND 19TH. RAINFALL WAS GENERALLY LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH...BUT WIDELY SCATTERED LOCATIONS RECEIVED AMOUNTS RANGING FROM A HALF TO OVER AN INCH OF RAIN. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ON THE EVENING OF THE 22ND...AND THROUGHOUT THE REGION ON THE 23RD...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVED INTO THE AREA FROM SOUTH-CENTRAL TEAXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACCOMPANIED THE SHOWERS AND STORMS. AMOUNTS GENERALLY VARIED UNDER AN INCH...BUT SOME LOCATIONS RECEIVED ONE TO TWO INCHES. IN JULY...COLD FRONTS USUALLY STALL OR DISSIPATE WELL TO THE NORTH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. LATE IN THE MONTH HOWEVER...A SIGNIFICANT EXCEPTION OCCURRED. DURING THE EVENING AND EARLY NIGHTTIME HOURS OF THE 24TH...A COLD FRONT MOVED SOUTHWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. AN UNUSUALLY COOL AIRMASS SETTLED INTO THE REGION ON THE 25TH AND 26TH...AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY CONSIDERABLE CLOUDCOVER. THIS HELD TEMPERATURES DOWN WITH READINGS WELL BELOW NORMAL FOR LATE JULY. A NUMBER OF COOL TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET AT ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO. AT ABILENE...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ONLY REACHED 70 DEGREES ON THE 25TH. THIS TIED THE RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JULY...WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY SET ON FOUR OTHER OCCASIONS. A NEW LOW (MINIMUM) TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS SET AT ABILENE ON THE 25TH AND TIED ON THE 26TH. AT SAN ANGELO...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ONLY REACHED 72 DEGREES ON THE 26TH. THIS TIED THE RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR JULY...WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY SET ON THREE OTHER OCCASIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE COOL WEATHER...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRED ACROSS VARIOUS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...FROM THE 23RD THROUGH THE 29TH. SCATTERED LOCATIONS ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS RECEIVED RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 3 TO 5.5 INCHES DURING THIS TIME FRAME...WITH A FEW HIGHER TOTALS. ONE TO TWO INCH AMOUNTS OCCURRED AT OTHER SCATTERED LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS LEAST ACROSS THE WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY...NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN HEARTLAND. $$