4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 9, 5:29 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 629 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 .UPDATE... MCC LOCATED ACROSS VAL VERDE...EDWARDS AND REAL COUNTIES MOVING SOUTHWARD. HAVE RAISED POPS ACROSS THE WESTERN CWFA THIS EVENING TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SOUTHWARD MOVING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 351 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005) DISCUSSION... WEAK UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY. DUE TO SATURATED GROUNDS AND ANTICIPATION OF OVERNIGHT STORMS...WENT WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH OVERNIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF I-10. STABILITY WILL RE-ENTER THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING ALLOWING THE RETURN OF LOWER POPS AND HIGHER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES BY FRIDAY. EXTENDED...HOT AND DRY OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS BACK INTO THE REGION. VERY FEW CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST...GFS SEEMED TO HAVE A HANDLE ON THE LONG-RANGE SITUATION. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS ALONG SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA TO ACCOUNT FOR SEA- BREEZE CONVECTION. TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR NORMAL MID-AUGUST LEVELS. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 PM WEDNESDAY FOR TXZ171-TXZ172-TXZ173- TXZ186-TXZ188-TXZ189-TXZ190-TXZ191-TXZ192-TXZ193-TXZ194-TXZ205- TXZ206-TXZ207-TXZ208-TXZ209. && 13/08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 552 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-101100- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 552 AM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EXPECT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR AND ACROSS THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:40 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The sheriff's department reported that high winds blew down trees near Leakey.
Slow-moving thunderstorms in the late afternoon produced general 2 to 3 inch rainfall in the Langtry area. Several roads in and around Langtry were closed through the early evening.
Thunderstorms southeast of Brackettville produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain in the southeast quarter of the County. Highest amounts were 4 inches about 10 miles east of Spofford. Flash flooding closed FM1572 through the late night hours.
Thunderstorms that formed in Kinney County continued to move eastward through the evening hours. They produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain from southwest Uvalde County southward into northwest Zavala County. Up to 4 inches fell near Dabney, producing flash flooding that closed FM481 and FM1022 through the late evening.
Thunderstorms that formed in Kinney County continued to move eastward through the evening hours. They produced between 2 and 3 inches of rain from southwest Uvalde County southward into northwest Zavala County. FM481 was closed through the late evening in the northwest corner of Zavala county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5469426, 5469427, 5469428, 5469518, 5469519.