4 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 May 8, 9:08 AM CST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1008 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 .UPDATE... EFFICIENT RAIN-MAKING DEEP CONVECTION TAKING-OFF NOW...WITH MUCH NEEDED RAIN ON THE WAY. UPDATED FORECAST TO EXPAND HIGHER POPS A BIT FURTHER WEST AND INCLUDE A MENTION OF SEVERE FOR THE ENTIRE CWFA. ALSO REESTABLISHED NEAR TERM SKY...TEMP... DEWPOINT AND WIND TRENDS BASED ON CURRENT OBS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY. NEW SUITE OF PRODUCTS OUT SHORTLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 619 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005/ UPDATE... HAVE UPDATED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 230 AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A KENEDY TO SAN ANTONIO TO LEAKEY TO MOUNTAIN HOME LINE. ALSO, WILL REMOVE COUNTIES THAT ARE ONLY IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 229. OTHERWISE, ONGOING FORECASTS GENERALLY ON TRACK. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 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. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 11/03/01/DC
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 527 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091000- 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- 527 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO GENERATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE SYSTEM WILL MOVE OFF TO THE EAST WITH STORMS ENDING BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1145 AM CDT SUN MAY 08 2005
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1140 AM HAIL 6 N BOERNE 29.89N 98.74W
05/08/2005 0.75 INCH KENDALL TX TRAINED SPOTTER
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DCThe Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:03 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
From 1 to 2 inches of rain fell across the area from Cuero to Yoakum, with as much as 7 inches southeast of Hocheim. SH183 was closed near Hocheim, with SH119 closed near New Davy and FM1446 closed at Cuero.
Thunderstorms produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain over southern Gonzales County. Highest totals were near 5 inches just southeast of Gonzales. SH183 was closed south of Gonzales with FM108 closed from Wrightsboro to Smiley.
A general inch of rain fell between Fedor and Lexington, with up to 6 inches in isolated spots between the two towns. Flash flooding closed FM112, FM696, and FM1624 near Lexington
Thunderstorms produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain between Moulton and Shiner, with up to 5 inches in the area around Moulton. SH95 was closed between Moulton and Shiner and FM1444 was flooded near Yorktown.
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: 5446105, 5446106, 5446107, 5446108, 5446109.