Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and flash flooding over the western counties.
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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 episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and flash flooding over the western counties.
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 7, 2:44 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 344 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007 .DISCUSSION... THIS MORNING A MCS WAS ONGOING ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND BIG COUNTRY. THIS FEATURE WILL TRACK EAST NORTHEAST THIS MORNING ALONG THE THETA-E RIDGE AXIS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF VAL VERDE AND EDWARDS COUNTIES. TODAY THE BEST CHANCE OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUT DOWN BY THE MCS AND ALONG THE QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT WEST OF DEL RIO. ALL MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT THE UPPER LEVEL TROF OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL FINALLY BEGIN TO MOVE EASTWARD TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CWFA. HOWEVER THERE IS A VARIETY OF SOLUTIONS REGARDING THE SPEED AND SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THE UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AS IT TREKS EASTWARD. THE GFS SOLUTION IS THE SLOWEST AND FURTHEST SOUTH WITH THE UPPER LOW. THIS SOLUTION KEEPS RAIN IN THE FCST THROUGH SATURDAY. NOGAPS HAS A TRACK SIMILAR TO THE GFS THROUGH FRIDAY WHILE THE ECMWF IS FARTHER NORTH. WE WILL GO WITH THE WETTER GFS SOLUTION FOR THIS FCST. THE GFS MOS MIN TEMP FCST HAS BEEN SHOWING A COOL BIAS OVER THE WEEKEND. WITH LITTLE OR NO CHANGE IN THE AIRMASS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL FCST NEAR PERSISTENCE FOR OVERNIGHT LOWS. SPC ONCE AGAIN HAS OUR WESTERN COUNTIES IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR TODAY...EXTENDING A LITTLE FARTHER TO THE EAST ON TUESDAY. WILL INCLUDE MENTION OF SEVERE IN THE FCST. ADDITIONAL MCS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN TONIGHT AND TUESDAY NIGHT WHILE THE UPPER TROF AND QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT REMAIN WEST OF THE CWFA. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 86 71 84 69 83 / 20 10 20 20 20 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 86 72 84 70 82 / 20 10 20 20 20 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 87 73 87 70 87 / 30 30 30 50 30 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 84 73 84 70 82 / 10 10 20 20 20 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 13/02
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 552 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007 TXZ183>185-202-217-081100- VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KINNEY-MAVERICK- 552 AM CDT MON MAY 7 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS THE EDWARDS PLATEAU..MIDDLE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS COULD PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE SLISK RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION..DEVELOPING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING BOTH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. TXZ171>173-186>190-192-203-204-218-228-081100- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO- TRAVIS-UVALDE-MEDINA-ZAVALA-DIMMIT- 552 AM CDT MON MAY 7 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 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION..DEVELOPING HEAVY RAIN EVENTS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING BOTH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. TXZ191-193-194-205>209-219>225-081100- HAYS-BASTROP-LEE-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-FRIO- ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA- 552 AM CDT MON MAY 7 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 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION..A DEVELOPING HEAVY RAIN EVENT MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY.
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:17 UTC.
5 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Devils River at Bakers Crossing crested at 9.87 ft on 0700 CST on May 7, where flood stage is 6 ft.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rain amounts over southern Val Verde County, with up to 5 inches near Del Rio. Many of the roads in the southern part of the county were closed, including FM1024 and FM163.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rain amounts over western Kinney County, with up to 4 inches just west of Brackettville. Most rural roads in the western part of the county were closed due to flash flooding, including FM3008, FM674, and FM693.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts over northern Dimmit County, with up to 4 inches north of Carrizo Springs. Flash flooding closed FM191 and FM65 through the evening.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rain amounts in southwestern Uvalde County, with 3 to 4 inches southwest of the city of Uvalde. Among other roads, FM481 and FM117 were closed due to high water.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rain amounts in western Zavala County with 3 inches between Crystal City and La Pryor. FM1025 and FM65 were closed due to high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2007
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: 34543, 33334, 33335, 33339, 33336, 33337, 33338.