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 23, 11:14 AM CST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
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 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.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms across the northwest part of Gillespie County produced between 3 and 5 inches of rain just southeast of Cherry Spring. The flash flooding resulting from the heavy rainfall closed FM2323 and FM648 near Cherry Spring.
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