Texas, 2005Flash Flood in Texas, August 9 to 10, 2005
August 9 to 10, 2005 · NWS EWX · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 9, 8:23 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:23 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
923 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005
.UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES IS SHOWING
A COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION THIS EVENING. BELIEVE THAT A MCV MAY
BE DEVELOPING. NAM12 AND RADAR TRENDS INDICATE THIS FEATURE WILL
MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS THE CWFA OVERNIGHT. BASED ON ANTICIPATED
MOVEMENT OF CONVECTIVE COMPLEX...HAVE ADDED THE FOLLWING COUNTIES
TO THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...ATASCOSA...WILSON...KARNES...DEWITT...
GONZALES AND LAVACA.
&&
.PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 629 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005)
UPDATE...
MCS 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.
&&
.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-TXZ220-TXZ221-TXZ222-TXZ223-TXZ224-
TXZ225.
&&
13/08
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 7:00 PM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
800 PM 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-
800 PM CDT TUE AUG 9 2005
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TONIGHT
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER THE WEST PART
OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...SOME
HAIL AND LIGHTNING IS LIKELY.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS LATER TONIGHT.
.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 IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 9, 7:07 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
807 PM CDT TUE AUG 09 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0640 PM TSTM WND GST LEAKEY 29.72N 99.76W
08/09/2005 60 MPH REAL TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&
JPBFlash Flood, Medina
- When
- August 9, 11:30 PM CST to August 10, 1:00 AM CST
- Where
- Medina County, Southwest Portion
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 29.383, -99.083
The thunderstorms in Uvalde County continued to spread eastward through the late night hours. They began producing heavy rain just before midnight in the southwest part of Medina County, where between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell. FM2200 was closed due to high water between D'Hanis and Yancey.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Flash Flood in Arizona, August 9, 20052 deaths · $300,000 · 1 event
- Hail in Nebraska, August 9, 2005$500,000 · 0.88 in hail · 2 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in California, August 9, 2005$280,000 · 54 kt wind · 7 events
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 9, 2005$350,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 9, 2005$200,000 · 1 in hail · 11 events
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 9, 2005$150,000 · 69 kt wind · 1 event
- Flash Flood and Flood in Maryland, August 9, 2005$100,000 · 2 events
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 9, 2005$100,000 · 69 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, August 9, 2005$100,000 · 69 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 9, 2005$34,000 · 1.75 in hail · 22 events
- Flash Flood in Arizona, August 9, 2005$50,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 9, 2005$38,000 · 1 in hail · 6 events
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: 5469520.