Thunderstorms associated with a persistent upper level low produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the morning and early afternoon of July 26.
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Thunderstorms associated with a persistent upper level low produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the morning and early afternoon of July 26.
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 26, 5:35 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 635 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 .AVIATION... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHRA/TSRA WILL MOVE NORTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE COASTAL BEND. IFR/MVFR CIGS WILL PREVAIL THIS MORNING WITH CONDITIONS LOWER IN THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. OCCASIONAL VFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE TODAY BETWEEN THE CONVECTION. ONCE AGAIN THE CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AFTER 03Z WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND REDEVELOP AFTER 07Z. A LIGHT TO MODERATE SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL FLOW IS FORECAST TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH CONVECTIVE WIND GUSTS OF 30 KTS POSSIBLE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 356 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2007/ DISCUSSION... THERES NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE ONGOING FORECAST. THE 500MB LOW WHICH CAN BE SEEN ON WV OVER THE RIO GRANDE IN VAL VERDE COUNTY WILL DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHWEST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. AT THE SAME TIME THE BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW WILL BE FROM THE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MOISTURE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS ALL MEANS MORE RAIN. POPS WILL REMAIN IN THE CHANCE TO LIKELY CATEGORIES FOR MOST OF THE CWA THROUGH SATURDAY. WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. IN ADDITION SKIES WILL BE MAINLY CLOUDY AND THIS WILL KEEP HIGH TEMPS WELL BE BELOW NORMAL. BY SUNDAY THE UPPER LOW WILL HAVE MOVED FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO ALLOW FOR A DECREASE IN POPS. THIS WILL START A DRYING AND WARMING TREND. POPS WILL DROP TO MAINLY SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY MONDAY AND REMAIN LOW THROUGH THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. HIGH TEMPS WILL WILL ALSO CLIMB TOWARD NORMAL LEVELS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 71 85 72 90 74 / 50 60 40 50 30 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 70 84 71 89 73 / 50 60 50 50 30 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 73 89 75 93 76 / 40 40 50 40 40 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 73 84 74 87 76 / 50 60 50 50 30 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES: 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. && 05/01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 529 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-271030- 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- 529 AM CDT THU JUL 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH ACROSS THE AREA WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY WITH DECREASING CHANCES SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO DOMINATE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:28 UTC.
1 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Storms dropped from 2 to 3 inches of rain in Austin with flooding reported around MoPac near Steck Lane and Far West, as well as along Shoal Creek Boulevard.
Bull Creek at Loop 360 crested at 6.4 ft on July 26 at 0840cst, where flood stage is 5 ft.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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