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 Oct 11, 9:12 AM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1012 AM CDT TUE OCT 11 2005 .DISCUSSION... AREAS OF RAIN CONTINUE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WITH LIFT FOR RAIN SUPPORTED BY 925 AND 850 HPA TROF FROM NEAR BURNET TO NEAR COTULLA TO SOUTH OF EAGLE PASS. FORECASTS SHOW THIS BOUNDARY DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST TODAY...AS ASSOICATED SPEED MAX ALOFT MOVES EAST...NORTHEAST TOWARD THE MS VALLEY. THIS BODES WELL FOR CONTINUE RAIN TDOAY...THAT COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. INCREASED POPS FOR TODAY MAINLY EAST HALF OF AREA AND MENTIONED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. ADJUSTED HIGH TEMPS PER TRENDS 11Z TO 15Z. EXPECT ANOTHER WAVE OF LIFT COMING TONIGHT AND WED MORNING...PROVIDING ADDITIONAL RAIN...THEN CONDITIONS BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY LATE WED. BY WED NIGHT AND THU CLOUDS MAY INCREASE AGAIN...ALONG WITH RAIN CHANCES...AS LARGE SCALE 500 HPA TROF MOVES OVER THE AREA FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST. IN WAKE OF THURSDAYS UPPER LEVEL TROF...MORE STABLE CONDITIONS EXPECTED FRIDAY...BRINGING DRIER WEATHER TO THE AREA FRIDAY. THIS IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY. INCREASING CLOUDS EXPECTED SUNDAY...AHEAD OF NEXT FALL WEATHER SYSTEM...FORECAST TO BRING A CHANCE OF RAIN EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 255 AM CDT TUE OCT 11 2005) DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL LOW HAS MOVED FROM NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO INTO EASTERN COLORADO. ONGOING CONVECTION RELATED TO UPPER LEVEL TROF ROTATING AROUND LOW. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE HILL COUNTRY WILL SWING EAST THIS EARLY MORNING AND TODAY WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION REPEATING TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. 00Z SOUNDING OBSERVATION FROM DRT HAS DRIER PWS THAN YESTERDAY MORNING WHERE CRP IS NOTICEABLY WETTER. DEW-POINT DEPRESSION ANALYSIS LOOP REFLECTS A ONE TO THREE DEGREE SPREADS OVER THE REGION. HAVE UPDATED THE FORECAST ADDING AREAWIDE FOG. THESE CONDITION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. WINDS HAVE STAYED UP AND THUS DONT EXPECTED A DENSE FOG SITUATION. 00Z MODEL GUIDANCE RUNNING 4 HOURS LATE AS RELATED BY NCEP. WITHOUT ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE...LOOKING AT CURRENT TRENDS AND ONGOING WEATHER FORECAST APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK. THE 18Z MAV FROM YESTERDAY WAS NOTICEABLY DRIER THAN CURRENT FORECAST. ASSUMING NO BIG CHANCES IN THE 00Z GFS...WHEN IT COMES AVAILABLE...LOOKING FOR ANOTHER TROF TO ROTATE AROUND LOW TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE LOW KICKS OUT LATE WEDNESDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL SLOWLY END BY THURSDAY AS THE LOW MOVES NORTHEAST AND A DRY PATTERN SETS UP RESULTING IN A DRY WEEKEND. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 08/06/JB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 550 AM CDT TUE OCT 11 2005 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-121100- 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- 550 AM CDT TUE OCT 11 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS MORNING. STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE LIKELY. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:02 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Late morning thunderstorms over northeast Dimmit County produced between 3 and 4 inches of rain in the Big Wells area. FM1019 and FM468 were closed briefly southeast of Big Wells due to flash flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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