Heavy rain from thunderstorms over Lee County produced flash flooding on June 17.
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Heavy rain from thunderstorms over Lee County produced flash flooding on June 17.
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 Jun 17, 9:37 AM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1037 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 .UPDATE...THE UPPER LOW HAS NOT SHIFTED TOO FAR SINCE YESTERDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS MORNING ACROSS OUR AREA...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. WILL GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE WITH THIS FORECAST...AS THE MODELS ARE SHOWING SOME UNCERTAINTY. NOT COMFORTABLE DROPPING ANY OF THE COUNTIES OUT OF THE WATCH AREA JUST YET...AS THERE IS STILL SOME POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT OF MORE THUNDERSTORMS. NO UPDATES TO THE CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE AT THIS TIME. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 625 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007/ AVIATION... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH TEXAS. THIS UPPER LEVEL FEATURE IN COMBINATION WITH DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. VFR/MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL WITH IFR CONDITIONS IN AND NEAR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO END THIS EVENING AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WEAKENS AND MOVES NORTHEAST INTO OKLAHOMA. WITH THE CONVECTION ENDING THIS EVENING GULF LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED RESULTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IFR CIGS FOR THE I-35 TERMINALS. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 406 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007/ DISCUSSION... FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL END LATE TODAY AS THE UPPER LOW OPENS UP AND BEGINS A SLOW NE DRIFT OUT OF TEXAS THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVIEST RAIN SO FAR WITH THIS EVENT HAS BEEN ACROSS THE NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY...EDWARDS PLATEAU AND SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO WHERE KEWX AND KDFX RADARS ESTIMATED AMOUNTS BETWEEN 5 AND 6 INCHES. WILL DROP OUR RIO GRANDE COUNTIES FROM THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH GIVEN LOW POPS OUT THERE TODAY AND LACK OF RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS (EXCEPT FOR FAR NE VAL VERDE). ELSEWHERE...HIGH POPS CONTINUE THROUGH TODAY THEN DECREASE AND HOLD THROUGH NEXT WEEK AS THE UPPER HIGH BUILDS UP OVER WEST TEXAS...NORTHERN MEXICO AND THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES. THE 00Z GFS SOLUTION KEEPS OUR AREA ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER HIGH AND TAPS GULF MOISTURE TO PRODUCE DAYTIME HEATING-TRIGGERED CONVECTION WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...BUT THE 00Z ECMWF SOLUTION ADVERTISES A MORE DOMINANT UPPER HIGH OVER OUR AREA WHICH WOULD FAVOR AT OR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AND CLIMO-TYPE (LOW) POPS. AT THIS POINT...AM HESITANT TO BUY-IN TO THE 00Z GFS SOLUTION AND RESULTING MOS GIVEN THE ECMWF SOLUTION...SO OUR NUMBERS WILL BE BELOW GFSMOS FOR POPS AND 1-3 DEGREES ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR MAX TEMPS TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. OUR MAX TEMP FORECAST FOR TODAY AND MONDAY WILL BE A BLEND OF THE ETAMOS AND GFSMOS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 85 72 91 76 94 / 80 40 10 - 10 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 85 71 92 74 93 / 80 40 10 - 10 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 90 75 97 76 98 / 20 20 - - - SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 86 73 92 76 94 / 60 20 10 - 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON 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... LAVACA...LEE...LLANO...MEDINA...REAL...TRAVIS...UVALDE... WILLIAMSON...WILSON...ZAVALA. && 03/01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 518 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-181100- 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- 518 AM CDT SUN JUN 17 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND ALL OF THE HILL COUNTRY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED OVER CENTRAL TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE PRIMARY TRIGGER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms produced a general 1 to 2 inch rain over southern Lee County. Highest totals were 4 inches just east of Giddings. FM141 and FM180 were closed due to flash flooding.
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