1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 7, 8:05 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
805 PM CST FRI FEB 7 2003
THIS EVENING THE 00Z SOUNDING AT DRT INDICATED THAT SNOW WILL BE THE
LIKELY FORM OF PCPN OVERNIGHT FOR THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND HILL
COUNTRY. DRT SOUNDING TEMPS WERE BELOW FREEZING ABOVE 1800 FT. THE
00Z CRP SOUNDING WAS MORE INDICATIVE OF RAIN MIXED WITH SLEET WITH
ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF THE SOUNDING BELOW FREEZING BELOW 700MB. WE
HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS OF SLEET IN BEXAR AND WILSON COUNTIES THIS
EVENING. OVERALL THE CURRENT FCST IS IN GOOD SHAPE WITH SNOW NORTH
TRANSITIONING TO A MIX OF RAIN AND SLEET SOUTH.
A STRONG UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WAS LOCATED OVER NE MEXICO...SW OF EL
PASO AND WAS PRODUCING LIGHTNING STRIKES. THIS UPPER LEVEL FEATURE
IS FCST TO LIFT OUT TO THE NORTHEAST TONIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN
INCREASED UVV OVER THE CWFA LATER TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.
THUS A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE HILL COUNTRY MAY SEE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS
OF 3 TO 4 INCHES WITH ANOTHER BURST OF PCPN LATE TONIGHT INTO
SATURDAY MORNING.
PRELIMS...
AUS 031/041 036/053 038 66300
DRT 033/047 041/064 041 66200
SAT 033/042 040/055 042 66400
13/04
.EWX...WINTER WX ADVISORY THRU SATURDAY MORNING FOR ALL OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 527 AM CST FRI FEB 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR RAIN MIXED WITH SLEET ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY TODAY AS MOISTURE FROM THE PACIFIC OVER RUNS THE CANADIAN AIR WHICH INVADED THE REGION THURSDAY. THANKS TO THE ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES BEFORE THE CANADIAN BLAST ARRIVED...FEW ICING PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED FOR ROADWAYS DURING THE DAY TODAY. RAIN AND SLEET WILL BE CHANGING OVER TO SLEET AND SNOW ACROSS THE NORTH TONIGHT...ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM DEL RIO TO UVALDE TO SAN ANTONIO TO BASTROP TO GIDDINGS. RAIN WILL BE MIXED WITH SLEET AND SNOW SOUTH OF THE LINE. ONLY LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN AN INCH ARE EXPECTED FOR THESE NORTHERN AREAS WITH ONLY BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES A CONCERN FOR THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS. STILL... MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION IF TRAVELING TONIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... BY SATURDAY MORNING...PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN THE FORM OF AREAS OF RAIN MIXED WITH SLEET. THIS WILL GIVE WAY TO RAIN LATE IN THE DAY SATURDAY AS THE THREAT OF FREEZING PRECIPITATION ENDS.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:32 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of up to 3 inches across the southwest portion of Gillespie County caused flash flooding to develop very quickly over the area. The flooding was brief, ending just before midnight.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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