A strong, long-duration atmospheric river will bring excessive rainfall, flash flooding, and very strong winds to southwest Oregon and northwest California through Thursday. A High Risk (level 4 of 4) of Excessive Rainfall has been issued. A storm system over the northern Plains will produce locally heavy snow in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Read More >
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 550 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008 ...6TH WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD FOR SAN ANGELO... TEMPERATURES AVERAGED ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS IN JUNE...ESPECIALLY AROUND SAN ANGELO. THE NUMBER OF DAYS WHERE TEMPERATURES REACHED 100 DEGREES OR MORE INCLUDED 12 AT SAN ANGELO...4 AT JUNCTION...AND 1 AT ABILENE. TOTAL RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH VARIED FROM WELL ABOVE TO WELL BELOW NORMAL. FOR SOUTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... THE MONTHLY RAINFALL WAS LESS THAN 50 PERCENT OF NORMAL. THE MONTHLY RAINFALL WAS WELL ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS SCATTERED POCKETS OF CROCKETT...SCHLEICHER...SUTTON AND IRION COUNTIES. AT ABILENE REGIONAL AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE WAS 82.6 DEGREES. THIS WAS 2.8 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 79.8 DEGREES. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE WAS 2.52 INCHES. THIS WAS 0.54 INCHES BELOW THE MONTHLY NORMAL OF 3.06 INCHES. AT SAN ANGELO REGIONAL AIRPORT...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE WAS 84.8 DEGREES. THIS WAS 5.6 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 79.2 DEGREES. THIS MARKS THE 6TH WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD FOR SAN ANGELO. TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE WAS 2.19 INCHES. THIS WAS 0.33 INCHES BELOW THE MONTHLY NORMAL OF 2.52 INCHES. JUNE 2008 WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS... THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM...WHICH WAS LOCATED OVER THE REGION DURING THE LATE PART OF MAY...REMAINED IN PLACE DURING THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF JUNE WITH A CONTINUATION OF HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS. WITH THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE FROM NEW MEXICO AND A DRYLINE FROM THE WEST...STRONG GUSTY SOUTH WINDS OCCURRED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ON THE 5TH. PEAK WIND GUSTS REACHED 52 MPH AT ABILENE AND 45 MPH AT SAN ANGELO. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED EAST INTO THE BIG COUNTRY. STRONG WINDS FROM THESE STORMS BLEW OVER 4 SEMI-TRUCKS ALONG INTERSTATE 20 IN NOLAN COUNTY. POWER POLES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN HASKELL COUNTY (2 MILES SOUTH OF ROCHESTER). IN ADDITION...TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND A GYMNASIUM WAS DAMAGED IN FISHER COUNTY (ROTAN). SCATTERED LOCATIONS ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN CONCHO VALLEY RECEIVED OVER AN INCH OF RAINFALL. DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE MONTH...THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SHIFTED INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES...AND WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WAS SITUATED ON THE EASTERN PERIPHERY OF THIS SYSTEM. WITH THIS PATTERN AND A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT INTO THE REGION...THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES AFFECTED PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. ON THESE OCCASIONS...THE STORMS TYPICALLY DEVELOPED ACROSS THE REGION FROM NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES INTO WESTERN KANSAS. AFTER THESE STORMS DEVELOPED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...THEY ORGANIZED INTO CLUSTERS OR COMPLEXES AND THEN TRACKED SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST TOWARD WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. ON THE EVENING OF THE 13TH...WINDS TO 70 MPH WERE REPORTED IN STERLING COUNTY (15 MILES WEST OF STERLING CITY). LATE ON THE 16TH...A WIND GUST TO 68 MPH WAS REPORTED AT STAMFORD (JONES COUNTY). IN ADDITION...TREE LIMBS WERE DOWNED BY STRONG WINDS IN FISHER COUNTY (2 MILES SOUTH OF ROTAN). A MORE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER EVENT WITH STRONG WINDS OCCURRED ON THE EVENING AND EARLY NIGHTTIME HOURS OF THE 19TH. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MOVED SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS ROUGHLY THE NORTHERN HALF OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...AND SCATTERED STORMS OCCURRED FARTHER TO THE SOUTH. WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH OCCURRED ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. THIS CAUSED SOME WIND DAMAGE IN CALLAHAN...NOLAN AND JONES COUNTIES. THE ABILENE REGIONAL AIRPORT RECORDED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 62 MPH. A PEAK WIND GUST OF 49 MPH OCCURRED AT THE SAN ANGELO REGIONAL AIRPORT WHEN THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSED FLOODING OF SOME HIGHWAYS IN JONES COUNTY AROUND STAMFORD. SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUED INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF THE 20TH ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. FOR THIS EVENT...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CROCKETT COUNTY...RAINFALL TOTALS WERE MOSTLY IN THE RANGE OF ONE HALF INCH TO 1.5 INCHES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED LOCATIONS RECEIVED 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES...AND A FEW LOCATIONS ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY RECEIVED BETWEEN 2.5 AND 3 INCHES. ON THE 21ST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRED ACROSS THE AREA MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM MERTZON TO JUNCTION. LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE OVER AN INCH. FROM THE 22ND THROUGH THE 27TH...A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM ALOFT REMAINED OVER NORTHERN MEXICO AND NEW MEXICO. THIS SYSTEM WAS THE PREVAILING WEATHER INFLUENCE ON WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WITH MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS AND TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. BY THE 28TH...A CHANGE IN THE FLOW PATTERN ALOFT ALLOWED A WEAK COLD FRONT TO APPROACH WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FROM THE NORTH. THE APPROACH AND ARRIVAL OF THE FRONT...COMBINED WITH A SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THESE OCCURRED FROM THE LATE AFTERNOON OF THE 28TH THROUGH THE 29TH. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A WIND GUST TO 60 MPH IN HASKELL COUNTY ON LATE AFTERNOON OF THE 28TH (3 MILES WEST OF HASKELL). ON THE EARLY MORNING OF THE 29TH...HEAVY RAINFALL FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN SOUTHERN CROCKETT COUNTY. THE FRONT STALLED ACROSS CENTRAL SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... THEN EVENTUALLY DRIFTED SOUTH TOWARD INTERSTATE 10 ON THE 30TH. THE PRESENCE OF THIS FRONT...COMBINED WITH THE INFLUENCE OF A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO THE WEST...RESULTED IN ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ON THE 30TH. THIS ACTIVITY OCCURRED ACROSS THE REGION SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS OF THE MONTH...THE AREA SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM JUNCTION TO SAN SABA...ALONG WITH MOST OF THE BIG COUNTRY...RECEIVED LESS THAN ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FOR THIS EVENT. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH RANGE WERE COMMON ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED POCKETS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HEARTLAND...CONCHO VALLEY AND NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU RECEIVED 3 TO 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL. THE RAINFALL ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HELPED TO BRING SHORT TERM RELIEF FROM THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS. $$