Severe Weather Threat Today & Tonight:

From Meteorologist Chris Whited in the KRBC Triple Doppler Weather Center...

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
SAN ANGELO TX
503 AM CDT WED APR 9 2008

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-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROTAN...ROBY...SWEETWATER...STERLING CITY...ROBERT LEE...BRONTE...BALLINGER...WINTERS...MERTZON...SAN ANGELO...EDEN...OZONA...ELDORADO...SONORA...HASKELL...
THROCKMORTON...WOODSON...STAMFORD...ANSON...HAMLIN
...ALBANY...ABILENE...CLYDE...BAIRD...CROSS PLAINS...
COLEMAN...BROWNWOOD...BRADY...SAN SABA
...MENARD...JUNCTION...MASON

503 AM CDT WED APR 9 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT...

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM CURRENTLY OVER THE SOUTHWESTERNUNITED STATES WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING. A WARMFRONT WILL MOVE BACK NORTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY.SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT THIS MORNING AS THE WARM FRONT LIFTS TO THE NORTH. WITH AWARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE ACROSS WEST CENTRALTEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODEVELOP AS THE DRYLINE MOVES INTO THE WESTERN POSITIONS OF THE BIG COUNTRY AND CONCHO VALLEY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOMESEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORNADOES. ALSO...A FEW STRONG TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHERN HEARTLAND. AS THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES INTO TEXAS TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE....MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THEBIG COUNTRY AND THE HEARTLAND.

LISTEN TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.