Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in Eagle Pass.
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Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in Eagle Pass.
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 May 21, 5:25 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 625 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007 .UPDATE...DUE TO THE PROGRESSION OF THE MCS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...HAVE INCREASED THE POPS ACROSS THE AREA FOR TODAY. UPDATE WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 443 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007/ DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE THIS MORNING. THE MODELS ARE NOT HANDLING THIS SYSTEM VERY WELL. THE GFS MOS ONLY HAD 20-30 POPS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...SO HAVE INCREASED THE POPS SLIGHTLY IN OUR FAR WESTERN COUNTIES FOR TODAY. THIS COULD BE A MORE UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AS GULF MOISTURE DEEPENS. PW VALUES ARE RUNNING JUST OVER AN INCH AT KDRT...AND OVER ONE AND A HALF INCHES AT KCRP. WITH THE PROGRESSION OF THIS SYSTEM AND THE CONVECTION NOW INITIATING FARTHER EAST OF THE MAIN PRECIPITATION AREA...COULD MEAN MORE CONVECTION FOR OUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...THAN ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO TEXAS ON THURSDAY. THE MODEL TREND IS TO KEEP THE FRONT NORTH OF OUR AREA. HOWEVER...THERE MAY BE ENOUGH MOMENTUM FOR A MCS TO MAKE IT INTO THE HILL COUNTRY. DUE TO THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY STAYING TO THE NORTH OF THE REGION...TEMPERATURES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED. THUS...THE TEMPERATURES FOR THE WEEK WILL GENERALLY BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS. TODAY WILL BE THE COOLEST DAY OF THE WEEK...WITH MAX TEMPERATURES REMAINING BELOW NORMAL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 82 69 84 71 86 / 50 20 30 10 10 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 83 69 85 69 87 / 50 20 30 10 10 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 83 70 87 72 90 / 50 30 - - - SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 81 68 84 70 86 / 50 20 20 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 03/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 602 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-221100- 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- 602 AM CDT MON MAY 21 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:29 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 2 to 3 inch rain amounts in the Eagle Pass area. The resulting flash flooding closed FM1021.
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