An isolated thunderstorm caused a microburst over southern Wilson County on County Road 203.
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An isolated thunderstorm caused a microburst over southern Wilson County on County Road 203.
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 Aug 5, 11:45 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1245 PM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 .AVIATION... TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD CONTINUES TO TRACK W-NW ACROSS THE HOUSTON AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. TRACK MOVES IT W-NW INTO AND ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY. BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. RAINS WILL CONTRACT CLOSER TO THE CENTER WITH TONIGHT WITH HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE. BEST CHANCES OF HEAVY RAINS IMPACTING TAF SITES IS KAUS KAUS LATE THIS EVENING AND DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP LATER WEDNESDAY MORNING. VFR SKIES WILL PREVAIL THIS AFTERNOON. MVFR CIGS AND PERHAPS IFR CIGS/VSBYS WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT AS THE AIRMASS MOISTENS RAINS INCREASE, THEN SLOWLY LIFT LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. VFR SKIES WILL PREVAIL AT KDRT THROUGH THE FORECAST. WINDS WILL BE CYCLONIC THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT, THEN SOUTHEASTERLY ON WEDNESDAY AS EDOUARD MOVES AWAY. WIND SPEEDS WILL BE LESS THAN 15 KTS, HOWEVER GUSTS TO 35 KTS ARE POSSIBLE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1000 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008/ UPDATE... THE OUTER MOST RAIN BANDS FROM TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD HAVE ALREADY ENTERED THE EASTERN-MOST COUNTIES OF OUR CWA. RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AS EDOUARD CONTINUES TO SLOWLY MOVE WEST-NORTHWEST. HAVE GONE AHEAD AND EXPANDED THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE FAYETTE COUNTY...BUT HAVE OTHERWISE LEFT W/W/A PRODUCTS ALONE WITH RESPECT TO TIME AND AREA. SOME ADJUSTMENTS WERE MADE TO NEAR-TERM GRIDS TO ACCOUNT FOR CURRENT AND ANTICIPATED TRENDS. WILL CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE SITUATION AS FURTHER INTERMEDIATE UPDATES MAY BECOME NECESSARY DUE TO THE INHERENT UNCERTAINTY OF THE SITUATION. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 655 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008/ AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS AND LIGHT WINDS SHOULD PERSIST UNTIL AROUND 18Z FOR THE AREA TAF SITES. THE EFFECTS OF EDOUARD WILL BE GENERATING SPOTTY SHOWERS FROM OUTER BANDS ABOUT 40-60 NM EAST OF AUS EARLY THIS MORNING, THEN POSSIBLY INTO THE AUS AREA BY AROUND 18Z. DAYTIME HEATING AND WIND SHEAR COULD HELP GENERATE COOL OUTFLOWS GUSTING OVER 30 KTS WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT BANDS DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. CONVECTIVE BANDS SHOULD PEAK INTO THE AUS/SAT METRO AREAS FROM 21Z TO 02Z TO COINCIDE WITH MAX HEATING, THEN THE CONVECTION SHOULD RETREAT CLOSER TO THE CENTER AS EDOUARD APPROACHES CLL DURING THE EARLY EVENING. CONVECTION SHOULD THEN BECOME MORE ACTIVE FOR THE AUS AREA AND POINTS NORTH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT WITH GUSTY AND SHIFTY WINDS EXPECTED NEAR AUS FROM 04-10Z WHEN THE LOW CENTER PASSES TO THE NORTH. ONLY A FEW INTERMITTENT SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED IN THE SAT METRO AREA AT NIGHT BASED ON THE CURRENT PROJECTED TRACK OF EDOUARD. DUE TO A TEMPORARILY WEAKENED RIDGE, THERE REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY IN THE TRACK LATE TONIGHT WHICH COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE LATTER PERIOD PROJECTIONS FOR THE AUS AREA. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 413 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008/ DISCUSSION... WESTWARD MOVING RAIN BANDS WILL BEGIN PUSHING THROUGH EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA BY THIS AFTERNOON AS TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD STRIKES THE UPPER TEXAS COAST THIS EVENING. THE CENTER SHOULD MOVE INTO THE HOUSTON CWA LATE TODAY..AND INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL TEXAS BY LATE TONIGHT. OUR MAIN CONCERN FOR TONIGHT IS EXACTLY WHERE THAT CENTER CORE WILL LIE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THAT IS WHERE THE POTENTIAL FOR TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND RESULTANT FLOODING WILL EXIST. DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE EVENTUAL STORM TRACK..OUR BEST ESTIMATE IS THAT WELL BE ON THE SOUTHERN PERIPHERY OF A BAND OF HEAVY RAINS TO MOVE NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN LEE COUNTY NORTHEAST THROUGH WILLIAMSON TO BURNET COUNTY. WELL BE A LITTLE LIBERAL ON THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH DUE TO MODEL UNCERTAINTIES AND TAKE IN THOSE COUNTIES (INCLUDING TRAVIS) JUST SOUTH OF THE ANTICIPATED HEAVY RAIN BAND AS WELL. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY BEFORE DISSIPATING WITH THE ATTENDANT UPPER WAVE MOVING WEST OF THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT. RIDGING BUILDS BACK INTO THE REGION THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY WITH TEMPERATURES GRADUALLY TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS AS THE ATMOSPHERE DRIES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 92 76 89 74 95 / 50 100 50 10 10 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 92 73 91 71 96 / 60 100 50 10 10 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 102 75 97 76 96 / 10 20 30 10 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 95 74 91 74 94 / 30 50 40 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BASTROP...BURNET...FAYETTE... LEE...TRAVIS...WILLIAMSON. WIND ADVISORY FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BASTROP...BURNET...FAYETTE...LEE...TRAVIS... WILLIAMSON. && 25/04
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1049 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 TXZ172-173-192>194-209-061100- BURNET-WILLIAMSON-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-FAYETTE- 1049 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD MADE LANDFALL ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST EARLIER THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. MONITOR FORECAST PRODUCTS FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FOR THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON EDOUARD. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BASTROP...BURNET... FAYETTE...LEE...TRAVIS...AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND CONCENTRATE CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF EDOUARD TONIGHT. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. A WIND ADVISORY IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR BASTROP...BURNET... FAYETTE...LEE...TRAVIS...AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. .DAY TWO...WEDNESDAY... THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD WILL MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN HILL COUNTRY WEDNESDAY MORNING. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. TXZ171-183>191-202>208-217>225-228-061100- LLANO-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE-KENDALL- BLANCO-HAYS-KINNEY-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL- MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT- LAVACA-DIMMIT- 1049 AM CDT TUE AUG 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD MADE LANDFALL ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST EARLIER THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. MONITOR FORECAST PRODUCTS FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER FOR THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON EDOUARD. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED IN BANDS ROTATING AROUND THE CENTER. ISOLATED RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. .DAY TWO...WEDNESDAY... THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM EDOUARD WILL MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY WEDNESDAY MORNING. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:31 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A barn was destroyed by a microburst with estimated winds of 80 mph. Debris from the barn was thrown hundreds of yards downwind. An adjacent house also sustained shingle damage and part of the chimney collapsed. Two trees sustained significant damage.
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