Texas, 2005

Flash Flooding in Texas, July 23, 2005

July 23, 2005 · NWS EWX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Jul 23, 11:14 AM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:14 AM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1214 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005

.UPDATE...
AREA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOW SHOWERS AND STORMS
CONTINUED TO INCREASE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY. WILL INCREASE POPS
TO LIKELY WITH HIGHER QPF AND MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
THERE. HAVE ALREADY ISSUED ONE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD
ADVISORY AND WITH TRAINING AND SLOW STORM MOVEMENT THIS SEEMS
REASONABLE. REMAINDER OF FORECASTS AND GRIDS GENERALLY ON TRACK.
TROPICAL WAVE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO NOW SEEMS TO BE
GETTING BETTER ORGANIZED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND COULD BE
DEVELOPING INTO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION OR STORM.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1057 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005/

UPDATE...
MID AND UPPER LEVEL CIRCULATION CONTINUES TO MOVE WEST OVER THE
HILL COUNTRY. AREA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOW WIDELY
SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MUCH
OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
THE COASTAL PLAINS LATE THIS MORNING. HAVE SENT AN UPDATE TO GO
CHANCE POPS, EXCEPT SLIGHT CHANCE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE. OTHERWISE,
ONGOING FORECASTS AND GRIDS GENERALLY ON TRACK.

PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 310 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005/

DISCUSSION...
EARLY THIS MORNING THE WV SATELLITE LOOP DEPICTED A VORT MAX LOCATED OVER
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS DRIFTING SOUTHWESTWARD. ISOLATED SHOWERS HAVE STARTED
TO DEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THIS UPPER LEVEL FEATURE. BOTH THE GFS AND
NAM SOLUTIONS HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THE VORT MAX. BOTH MODELS DEVELOP PCPN
ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY AS THE VORT MAX MOVES WSW.

THE NEXT SYSTEM TO IMPACT SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WILL BE THE STRONG TROPICAL
WAVE LOCATED OVER THE YUCATAN PENINSULA. THE GFS/UKMET/ECMWF ARE IN GOOD
AGREEMENT IN MOVING THE TROPICAL WAVE ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO AND INTO
NORTHERN MEXICO. THERE IS SOME VARIANCE IN TIMING BUT THE CONSENSUS IS
THE SYSTEM MOVING ONSHORE SUNDAY NIGHT. ONCE OVER LAND THE GFS HAS THE
WAVE MOVING NNW ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...FOLLOWING THE WESTERN
PERIPHERY OF THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY.

MOISTURE FROM THE TROPICAL WAVE WILL RESULT IN INCREASING RAIN CHANCES
SUNDAY AND MONDAY.  INCREASED CLOUD COVER WILL ALSO RESULT IN AFTERNOON
TEMPS BELOW SEASONAL NORMS.

AFTERNOON TEMPS WILL RECOVER TO SEASONAL NORMS BEGINNING TUESDAY AND
PREVAILING THRU THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. ISOLATED DIURNAL CONVECTION
WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE AS A WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER RIDGE PERSISTS ACROSS
TEXAS ALONG WITH A GOOD FETCH OF GULF MOISTURE.

EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

04/10
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 5:40 AM CST, 7 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
640 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-241100-
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-
640 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH THE
EARLY EVENING.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.  WIND GUSTS 20 TO 35
MPH AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE IN OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY DAYTIME AND EVENING SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY...AND OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TUESDAY.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY
THROUGH FRIDAY.

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

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Event by event

2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Llano

When
July 23, 1:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where
Llano County, Llano
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
30.750, -98.667

Thunderstorms produced nearly 3 inches of rain in the early afternoon near Llano. The resulting flash flooding closed SH16 south of Llano. Thunderstorms produced nearly 3 inches of rain in the early afternoon near Llano. The resulting flash flooding closed SH16 south of Llano.

Flash Flood, Llano

When
July 23, 1:30 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where
Llano County, Kingsland
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
30.650, -98.417

Early afternoon thunderstorms produced up to 3 inches of rain near Kingsland. Flash flooding closed FM1431 north of Kingsland.

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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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5465656, 5465657.