1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 1, 9:09 AM CST, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1009 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 .UPDATE... LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE TO LINGER ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE 1-35 CORRIDOR...BUT QPF OF LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH IS EXPECTED BEFORE NOON. INCREASED AREAL COVERAGE, AS WELL AS AN INCREASE OF INTENSITY, IS ANTICIPATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WILL LIKELY SEE WIDESPREAD ACCUMULATIONS OF HALF INCH TO AN INCH BY THE END OF THE DAY, WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS TO THREE INCHES POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURE TREND IS ON TRACK, WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS EXPECTED TO BE ONLY IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S, AS INCREASING CLOUD COVERAGE DURING THE DAY WILL INHIBIT INSOLATION. PREVIOUS FORECAST IS ON TRACK WITH THE CURRENT SITUATION, SO NO UPDATES ARE NECESSARY AT THIS TIME. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 653 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006) AVIATION... A SURGE OF TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN A VARIETY OF CEILINGS TODAY, MOST OF WHICH WILL BE ABOVE THE MVFR CATEGORY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO AFFECT MOST AREAS, WITH THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO FOCUS SOUTH OF THE ESCARPMENT THROUGH THE DAYLIGHT HOURS. HEAVY RAINS COULD POSSIBLY DEVELOP AND LOWER CIGS APPROACHING IFR FROM DRT TO SAT LATER TONIGHT, BUT THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF WARM CORE RAINS REMAINS UNCERTAIN. EXPECT A GENERAL EAST AND SOUTHEAST WIND THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING GUSTS MOSTLY BELOW 30KTS. SOME OF THE HEAVIER RAINS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF VSBY RESTRICTIONS TO AS LOW AS 3/4 MILE. PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 409 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006) DISCUSSION... BREAK-OUT THE UMBRELLAS. PWATS CONTINUE THE UPTREND...BUT HAVE YET TO REACH TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE NORMAL WHICH IS GENERALLY OUR THRESHOLD FOR A FLASH FLOOD WATCH GIVEN NO STATIONARY OR SLOW-MOVING LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY. SURFACE DEWPOINT TEMPS ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE ANOTHER 3-5 DEGREES...FURTHER INCREASING SURFACE-BASED CAPES AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DEEP CONVECTION. THE BROAD...AND BARELY CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER WEST TX IS TRANSITIONING INTO A SHEAR AXIS AND IS FORECAST TO REMAIN OVER CENTRAL TEXAS FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 4 DAYS...AND PERHAPS LONGER. THAT IS GOOD NEWS FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...BUT THE POTENTIAL TO GET TOO MUCH RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IS ON THE INCREASE. HAVE COVERED THAT POSSIBILITY WITH A MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...BUT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED LATER. AT THIS POINT...SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE THE BIG RAIN DAY AS WE TAP INTO DEEPER TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM THE WESTERN GULF. MEDIUM RANGE MODEL SOLUTIONS SHOW A GRADUAL INCREASE IN PRESSURE HEIGHTS ACROSS TX LATER NEXT WEEK...BUT A WEAKNESS IN THE UPPER HIGH REMAINING ACROSS SOUTH TX. THE 00Z GFS MOS TREND TOWARD LOWER POPS AND HIGHER MAX TEMPS AFTER TUESDAY LOOKS REASONABLE. OUR FORECAST IS WITHIN 1-2 DEGREES AND 10 PERCENT OF 00Z GFS MOS TEMPS AND POPS. FIRE WEATHER... GIVEN INCREASING CHANCES FOR WETTING RAIN AND HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...THE FIRE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE LOW GOING INTO THE 4TH OF JULY. EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 25/01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 537 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-021100- 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- 537 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING TODAY AND TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LOW INTERACTS WITH INCREASING GULF MOISTURE OVER TEXAS. THE FOCUS FOR THESE HEAVY RAINS STRETCH ACROSS A BROAD AREA OF SOUTH AND EAST TEXAS WITH THE HIGHER POTENTIAL GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF I-35. SPOTTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH MOST OF THIS RAIN ACCUMULATING GRADUALLY. HOWEVER...SMALLER SCALE WEATHER FEATURES COULD DEVELOP IN THIS RICH TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE FOCUS FOR RAIN. IF THIS HAPPENS..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED. THOSE WITH OUTDOOR INTERESTS THIS WEEKEND SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS IF A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HEAVY RAINS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THE CHANCE OF RAIN WILL DECREASE SLIGHTLY BEYOND SUNDAY. HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:23 UTC.
1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Two short-lived funnels were sighted by the public near Gonzales.
Afternoon thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rainfall over western Lavaca County. Highest totals were near 4 inches northeast of Hallettsville. Flash flooding closed FM531 and FM532 through the late afternoon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2006
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: 5526801, 5526802.