2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 8, 2:48 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 348 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 .DISCUSSION... CONVECTIVELY ACTIVE DAY AHEAD. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE HILL COUNTRY AND ADJOINING COUNTIES IMMEDIATELY SOUTH UNTIL 9 AM. HAVE BOOSTED POPS FOR TODAY AS SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE TILT SHORT-WAVE TROUGH AND LEFT EXIT REGION OF UPPER JET ENCOUNTER MOIST INFLOW ON LOW LEVEL JET AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A COUPLE OF MCS-S SHOULD FORM AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE DUE SUFFICIENT SHEAR AND CAPE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES DUE CLOUDS AND RAIN WITH HIGHER QPF. TROUGH MOVES EAST OF AREA TONIGHT WITH SOME POPS REMAINING OVER THE EAST THIS EVENING. BY MONDAY, UPPER LEVEL RIDGING AND WARMING MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL CAP AIRMASS. HOWEVER, THERE COULD BE SOME BOUNDARIES ON WHICH TO FOCUS CONVECTION, ALTHOUGH WILL BE TOO ISOLATED TO MENTION. UPPER RIDGE AXIS SLOWLY MOVES OVER TEXAS ON TUESDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN STATES. TROUGH WILL REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY THROUGH MUCH OF THE WORK WEEK, THEN MOVE EAST ACROSS THE PLAINS NEXT WEEKEND. SOUTHERLY LOWER LEVEL FLOW WILL PREVAIL KEEPING AT LEAST THE AIRMASS MOIST, HOWEVER CAPPING WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL INHIBIT DEEP CONVECTION AND WILL MAINTAIN ONLY GHOST POPS FOR POTENTIAL OF MAINLY NIGHT AND MORNING DRIZZLE OR STREAMER SHOWERS AS WEAK SHORT-WAVES MOVE OVERHEAD. TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY TREND TOWARD THE GFS GUIDANCE. MODELS HAVE BECOME MORE CONSISTENT FOR NEXT WEEKEND BRINGING A FRONT SOUTH TO NEAR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME DEVELOPING SOME TROUGHING OVER NORTHERN MEXICO. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES NEXT WEEKEND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE VERY WET. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 79 67 89 69 / 80 30 10 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 80 65 89 66 / 80 30 10 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 87 65 94 70 / 20 0 10 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 79 67 89 68 / 80 10 10 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 04/10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1145 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-071010- ATASCOSA-BANDERA-BASTROP-BEXAR-BLANCO-BURNET-CALDWELL-COMAL-DE WITT- 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- 1145 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT FROM COLORADO TO THE BIG BEND OF WEST TEXAS WILL MOVE EAST. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR RAIN...SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS LATER TONIGHT OR IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF SUNDAY. CAUTION IS ADVISED ON ROADS THAT GET WET AND SLIPPERY FROM SCATTERED RAINS. THE CHANCES FOR RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE FROM THE WEST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS MORE STABLE CONDITIONS DEVELOP OVER THE AREA. NO RAIN IS EXPECTED MONDAY OR TUESDAY WITH WARM EARLY TO MID MAY AFTERNOONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY. THIS DISTURBANCE WILL GENERATE AREAS OF RAIN WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ON SUNDAY. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. CAUTION IS ADVISED ON ROADS THAT GET SLIPPERY FROM RAINS. A RIDGE ALOFT WILL BUILD ACROSS THE REGION LATE SUNDAY AND INTO NEXT WEEK...WITH LITTLE OR NO PRECIPITATION EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON SUNDAY.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1134 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-080800- 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- 1134 PM CDT SAT MAY 7 2005 ...CHANCE OF RAIN LATER TONIGHT AND SUNDAY FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... A WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT FROM COLORADO TO THE BIG BEND OF WEST TEXAS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST THROUGH SUNDAY. AS THIS WEATHER SYSTEM ALOFT GETS CLOSER TO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND MOVES OVER THE AREA...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR RAIN... SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS LATER TONIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AND DURING PART OF THE DAY ON SUNDAY. CAUTION IS ADVISED ON ROADS THAT GET WET AND SLIPPERY FROM SCATTERED RAINS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD POTENTIALLY GET STRONG AND CAUSE SOME HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. THE CHANCES FOR RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE FROM THE WEST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AS MORE STABLE CONDITIONS DEVELOP OVER THE AREA. NO RAIN IS EXPECTED MONDAY OR TUESDAY WITH WARM EARLY TO MID MAY AFTERNOONS.
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:08 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees north of Mountain Home.
Widespread thunderstorms produced a general rainfall of between 1 and 2 inches over most of Gillespie County. Highest totals were near 4 inches between Fredericksburg and Willow City. Flash flooding closed SH16 just northeast of Fredericksburg. SH965 was also closed just north of Fredericksburg. FM1323 was also closed at Willow City.
The storms in Gillespie County spread northward into eastern Llano County, producing between 1 and 2 inches of rain between Llano and Kingsland. Highest totals were near 3 inches about 10 miles southeast of Llano. Flash flooding was reported along SH721 southeast of Llano and FM1431 was closed north of Kingsland.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2005
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: 5446910, 5446911, 5446912, 5446913.