1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 1:15 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 215 PM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 .DISCUSSION... CONVECTION BCMG ORGANIZED ACROSS THE NRN HILL COUNTRY THIS AFTN IN AN AREA OF CONVERGENCE ALONG A SLOW MOVG SFC TROF. A S/W WILL DIVE SWD OVR WEST TX ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE BROAD UPR TROF OVR TX...WHILE A FAIRLY GOOD INFLOW OF WARM GULF AIR EXISTS THIS EVENING. THEREFORE EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE WELL BEYOND SUNSET...AND WITH MID LVL WINDS PARALLEL TO THE SFC TROF THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY TRAINING RAINFALL AS THE SFC BOUNDARY SAGS INTO THE HILL COUNTRY AND STORMS BACK-BUILD SWWD...SO WILL ISSUE AN FFA THRU 4 AM FRIDAY MORNING. THE UPR TROF SLIPS JUST TO THE EAST DURING THE DAY FRI AND WILL SEE DECREASING POPS FROM THE WEST...BUT CONTD CHC IN THE EAST THRU THE DAY. WILL LEAVE THE FORECAST DRY FOR THE WEEKEND AND NEXT WEEK AS THE UPR RDG BUILDS INTO NM/N TX...HOWEVER SOME THERE COULD BE SOME ISOLD SEA-BREEZE SHOWERS OVR THE SE COUNTIES ON THE SRN PERIPHERY OF THE RDG. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 74 91 75 93 / 50 40 30 10 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 72 91 72 93 / 50 40 30 10 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 76 93 76 95 / 40 20 20 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 75 90 76 93 / 40 40 20 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR ALL BUT THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS. && 01/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 535 AM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-301100- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DEWITT- DIMMIT-EDWARDS-FAYETTE-FRIO-GILLESPIE-GONZALES-GUADALUPE-HAYS-KARNES- KENDALL-KERR-KINNEY-LAVACA-LEE-LLANO-MAVERICK-MEDINA-REAL-TRAVIS- UVALDE-VAL VERDE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-ZAVALA- 535 AM CDT THU JUL 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY. SEVERAL WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...DAYTIME HEATING AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION WILL PRODUCE WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME AND CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WITH AMPLE MOISTURE IN PLACE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND INTO FRIDAY EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...A DRIER WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED WITH UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE AREA... REDUCING RAIN CHANCES AND ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO RETURN TO NORMAL EARLY AUGUST VALUES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms over northern Bastrop County closed roads and flooded low water crossings in the early evening. The storms dropped general 1 inch amounts over the north half of the county, with up to 3 inches between Bastrop and Elgin, and up to 4 inches near Utley.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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