Name: Flash Flooding in Texas, August 6, 2005
Start: 2005-08-06T05:30
End: 2005-08-06T08:30
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

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 Aug 6, 3:00 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:00 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
400 AM CDT SAT AUG 6 2005

.DISCUSSION...
MOIST PATTERN RESULTING IN CHANCE POPS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE
WEEKEND AND INTO MONDAY. MODEL CONSENSUS HAS UPPER LOW OVER THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY MERGING WITH A WESTERLY SHORTWAVE AND
COMBINING TO LIFT THE BROAD UPPER TROUGH NORTHWARD INTO ARKANSAS
BY TUESDAY. THIS SHOULD LOWER OUR RAIN CHANCES SLIGHTLY, BUT NOT
NECESSARILY REDUCE MOISTURE LEVELS. THE WEAKNESS IN THE RIDGE
NEVER COMPLETELY GOES AWAY IN EVEN THE MORE CONSERVATIVE GFS
MODEL, AND A TUTT LOW EXPECTED THU/FRI WILL REINFORCE THE
UNSTABLE PATTERN HEADING INTO NEXT WEEKEND. THE DGEX MODEL IS MOST
AGRESSIVE WITH A PERSISENT TROUGH NEVER GIVING US A BREAK IN THE
MAINLY DIURNAL RAINS THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. PREFER THE
MIDDLE GROUND OF THE CANADIAN/NOGAPS WITH A COUPLE OF DRIER DAYS
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY BUT STILL SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION
POSSIBLE. GFS MACHINE NUMBERS LOOK REASONABLE FOR TEMPS THROUGH
THE EXTENDED FORECAST. A WARMING TREND WILL BE MORE NOTICEABLE FOR
LOW TEMPS EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE LIFTING TROUGH HELPS ENHANCE
SOUTHERLY WINDS OVERNIGHT.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AUSTIN CAMP MABRY              96  75  97  75 /  30  30  30  30
AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT  95  72  95  73 /  30  30  30  30
DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT           91  75  93  76 /  30  40  20  20
SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT       93  75  94  75 /  30  40  30  30

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

18/04

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:29 AM CST, 1 hour 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
529 AM CDT SAT AUG 6 2005

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-071000-
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-
529 AM CDT SAT AUG 6 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT.
THE STORMS WILL GENERALLY BE SLOW MOVING. THIS WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND
URBAN AREAS. WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE NEAR
STORMS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS CAN
BE EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS
EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:27 UTC.

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Event by event

2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Val Verde

When: August 6, 5:30 AM CST to 8:30 AM CST
Where: Val Verde County, 15 mi N of Del Rio
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.583, -100.900

Following the flash flooding on August 5th, storms formed again the next morning from where US277 and US377 split north of Del Rio southeastward into northwestern Kinney County. Rain totals averaged between 1 and 2 inches, with up to 4 inches where the two roads split. US277 was closed during a portion of the morning due to high water.

Flash Flood, Kinney

When: August 6, 6:30 AM CST to 8:30 AM CST
Where: Kinney County, Northwest Portion
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.383, -100.417

Following the flash flooding on August 5th, storms formed again the next morning from where US277 and US377 split north of Del Rio southeastward into northwestern Kinney County. Rain totals averaged between 1 and 2 inches, with up to 3 inches where FM2523 crosses the Val Verde County line. FM2523 and FM3008 were closed due to flash flooding northwest of Brackettville.

What these are

Flash Flood: Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5469357, 5469420.