After a week's break in the nearly daily thunderstorms heavy rainfall and flooding associated with an upper level low, heavy rain and flash flooding developed again on July 14.
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The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
After a week's break in the nearly daily thunderstorms heavy rainfall and flooding associated with an upper level low, heavy rain and flash flooding developed again on July 14.
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 14, 5:49 AM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 649 AM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007 .AVIATION... A BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUNCTION TO GEORGETOWN IS DRIFTING SOUTH ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY AND KAUS TERMINAL AREA. EXPECT VARYING CONDITIONS WITH THIS LINE. IFR CLOUDS FROM KSAT TO KDRT WILL OCCASIONALLY BECOME BROKEN THRU 15Z. THE SHOWER AND TSTM ACTIVITY WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WITH THE DOMINANT CEILINGS AT OR ABOVE 4THSD FT THIS AFTERNOON...IFR CONDITIONS IN THE TSTMS. BY 02Z VFR CEILINGS WILL LINGER AS ANOTHER ROUND OF NOCTURNAL SHOWERS AND ISOLATED TSTMS DEVELOP. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 348 AM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007/ DISCUSSION... AREA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST OVER CENTRAL TEXAS ALONG UPPER SHORT-WAVE AND SURFACE BOUNDARY. THESE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY GENERATING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WILL GRADE POPS FROM HIGH END CHANCE NORTHEAST TO SLIGHT CHANCE SOUTHWEST FOR TODAY. HAVE INTRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL MENTION ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF A FREDERICKSBURG TO SAN MARCOS TO LA GRANGE LINE. HOWEVER, WILL HOLD OFF ON WATCH AS HEAVY AMOUNTS WILL BE TOO LOCALIZED. REMAINDER OF THIS WEEKEND, SEVERAL SHORT-WAVES WILL DROP INTO DEVELOPING UPPER TROUGH CENTERED OVER THE ARKLATEX AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST ALONG THE TEXAS COAST. EXPECT ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE PASSAGE OF EACH SHORT-WAVE INTERACTING WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY AND AMPLE MOISTURE WITH PWS IN THE 1.6 TO 1.8 INCH RANGE. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL HAVE FORMED ON MONDAY, THEN MOVE VERY SLOWLY WEST ACROSS TEXAS THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK. LIFT, INSTABILITY, AND PWS WILL INCREASE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE TROUGH. PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED AND MAY LEAD TO SOME FLOODING AS SOILS REMAIN SATURATED FROM RAINS OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS. RESIDENTS OF AND VISITORS TO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AS THIS RAINFALL EVENT UNFOLDS AS VARIOUS FLOOD PRODUCTS MAY HAVE TO BE ISSUED. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 90 73 93 72 93 / 50 20 30 20 30 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 91 69 92 67 92 / 50 20 30 20 30 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 97 75 97 74 95 / 10 20 20 10 20 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 90 74 92 72 93 / 30 20 30 20 20 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04/06
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 453 AM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151000- 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- 453 AM CDT SAT JUL 14 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... MULTIPLE RAIN EVENTS THROUGH FRIDAY WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 8 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms dropped generally 2 to 3 inches of rain over the eastern part of the county, with up to 4 inches near Granger and southeast of Thrall. US79 was closed at Thrall. FM2243 was closed around Granger, and 2nd Street was flooded in Taylor.
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