Lightning struck a house and caused a house fire near Serbin.
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Lightning struck a house and caused a house fire near Serbin.
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 8, 11:32 AM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1232 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 .AVIATION... A MIX OF MVFR AND VFR CIGS WILL PREVAIL THIS AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. CONVECTION IS FORECAST TO DIMINISH BEFORE SUNSET. MVFR CIGS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WILL APPROACH IFR CLOSE TO SUNRISE WEDNESDAY. IMPROVEMENT TO VFR CONDITIONS IS FORECAST BY 15Z WEDNESDAY WITH A DOWNTREND IN CONVECTION COMPARED TO TODAY. A LIGHT TO MODERATE SE LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL PERSIST. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 954 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/ UPDATE... SHOWERS THIS MORNING ARE CONFINED TO THE WESTERN COUNTIES FROM DIMMIT TO EDWARDS AND VAL VERDE. THESE SHOWERS ARE MOVING NORTHWESTWARD AND WILL LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING. LIKE YESTERDAY...DONT EXPECT CONVECTION IN THE EAST UNTIL AFTERNOON WITH HEATING. THEREFORE...HAVE LOWERED THE POPS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING. ALONG WITH LOWER POPS HAVE ADJUSTED THE WEATHER AND QPF TO BETTER MATCH. NEW ZONES WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 644 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/ AVIATION...CONDITIONS REALLY VARY ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING...RANGING FROM LIFR TO VFR. CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THIS WAY UNTIL THE LOW CLOUDS SCATTER OUT TO VFR BETWEEN 15 AND 18Z TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING NORTHWARD ALONG THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...THUS WILL BE AFFECTING THE KDRT TAF SITE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THE I-35 CORRIDOR TAF SITES MAY SEE SOME SHOWERS LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE ONCE AGAIN TONIGHT TO BE MVFR/IFR BETWEEN 07-09Z. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 350 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008/ DISCUSSION... MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TREND SHOWING ONE MORE DAY OF HIGH RAIN CHANCES, THEN DECREASING CHANCES LEADING TO NO CHANCES THIS WEEKEND. A WEAK UPPER LOW REMAINS OVER NORTHEASTERN MEXICO EARLY THIS MORNING. A MOIST AIRMASS WITH PWS OF 1.9 TO 2.2 INCHES, UPPER DIFFLUENCE, AND MINIMAL CAPPING WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED, HOWEVER TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE AROUND ONE INCH OR LESS DUE TO FAST STORM MOTIONS. WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, THE UPPER LOW WILL SHEAR APART AS THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES BUILDS WEST INTO TEXAS LEADING TO DECREASING MOISTURE AND INCREASING SUBSIDENCE. WILL GO WITH MAINLY SCATTERED COVERAGE ON WEDNESDAY AND ISOLATED ON THURSDAY. BY FRIDAY, EXPECT ONLY ISOLATED COVERAGE ACROSS AREAS NEAREST THE COASTAL PLAINS WITH THE SEABREEZE. SUBTROPICAL RIDGE TAKES UP RESIDENCE OVER TEXAS THIS WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK. STRONG SUBSIDENCE, A MUCH DRIER AIRMASS WITH PWS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES, AND WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL KEEP OUT RAIN CHANCES SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. IT APPEARS OUR RECENT RAINS HAVE NOT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED SOIL MOISTURE, SO HAVE GONE A CATEGORY OR SO WARMER THAN MEX HIGHS IN MOST AREAS ON MOST DAYS. MEX LOWS SEEM REASONABLE, ALTHOUGH WENT A DEGREE OR TWO COOLER IN A FEW SPOTS IN A FEW NIGHTS. ALSO, WENT SLIGHTLY LOWER ON DEWPOINTS/RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 94 73 95 74 95 / 60 20 30 10 20 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 94 71 95 71 95 / 60 20 30 10 20 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 85 73 91 73 92 / 80 20 20 10 20 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 90 73 91 73 92 / 70 20 40 20 20 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 05/11
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 457 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-091000- 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- 457 AM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:59 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a house on County Road 209 in the Serbin area. The house was struck around 1 pm while the residents were away. The house was destroyed.
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