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Flood Watch 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flood watch at Jul 13, 2026, 10:03 AM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jul 13, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2026, 10:03 AM CDT (15:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 13, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 23 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comal County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jul 13, 5:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 5:57 AM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Zavala | 72 min |
| Jul 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | DeWitt | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Fayette, Gonzales | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Lee | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 4 hr |
Nearby
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.