Early morning thunderstorms caused several lightning strikes in Austin, two of which started fires at an apartment complex and a home.
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Early morning thunderstorms caused several lightning strikes in Austin, two of which started fires at an apartment complex and a home.
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 30, 5:33 AM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 633 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009 .AVIATION... SCT SHRA AND TSRA ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SOUTHWARD ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING...ASSOCIATED WITH A SUMMER COOL FRONT. SCT CLOUDS AT AND ABOVE 10 THSD FT ARE FORECAST TO BECOME 4 THSD TO 8 THSD SCT WITH SCT TO BKN CLOUDS ABOVE 10 THSD FT AFTER 16Z TODAY. SHRA AND TSRA ARE FORECAST IN VCNTY OF KAUS LATER THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. WDLY SCT SHRA AND TSRA ARE FORECAST VCNTY KSAT TO KDRT AROUND AND AFTER 20Z TODAY. SHRA AND TSRA ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER 04Z THIS EVENING. BY 06Z TONIGHT...6 THSD TO 10 THSD SCT...WITH SCT CLOUDS ABOVE 10 THSD FT IS EXPECTED. SFC WINDS TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO TURN TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 KNOTS...BECOMING LIGHT NORTHEAST AFTER 06Z TONIGHT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 313 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009/ DISCUSSION... SUCH A FLAT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE STATE. A COHERENT SFC BOUNDARY WAS FOUND FROM DEL RIO TO MINERAL WELLS TO PARIS. ALL SHOWER ACTIVITY IS OCCURRING ALONG AND NORTH OF THIS LINE. RAINFALL HAS BEEN PRETTY RAGGED. BECAUSE THE SHOWERS ARE SLOW MOVING, POCKETS OF BENEFICIAL 4 INCH TOTALS, BASED ON 88D RADARS, OVER NORTH TEXAS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SOMETIME TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.6 OR BETTER WILL SPREAD WESTWARD ACROSS THE CWA TODAY, THEN PULL AWAY FROM THE WESTERN COUNTIES THURSDAY. INCREASED CLOUDINESS TODAY AND WEDNESDAY, AND COOLING RAINS, WILL BRING MAX TEMPS DOWN FROM RECORD LEVELS. THE SPLIT IN THE UPPER RIDGE DISAPPEARS THURSDAY. BUT WE KEEP A DECENT TROPICAL TAP OVER THE CWA FRIDAY AS AN INVERTED UPPER TROF MOVES WEST ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE INTO NORTHERN MEXICO. THEN THE RAINS SHUT OFF FRIDAY EXCEPT FOR ISOLATED SEABREEZE SHOWERS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 99 74 96 74 99 / 40 20 20 20 - AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 98 72 97 72 99 / 40 20 20 20 - NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 102 72 96 71 98 / 20 30 30 20 10 BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 94 71 93 73 98 / 40 20 20 10 - DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 98 76 97 76 96 / 30 40 30 10 - GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 97 72 95 73 97 / 40 20 20 10 - HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 101 72 97 73 97 / 30 40 30 10 10 SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 100 72 96 72 97 / 30 20 20 20 - LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 96 74 94 73 98 / 40 10 20 10 10 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 101 74 95 75 98 / 20 30 30 10 10 STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 101 75 97 74 99 / 20 30 30 10 10 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 06/08
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 640 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-011100- 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- 640 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A SUMMER COOL FRONT...ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SOUTHWARD ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAY TWO...WEDNESDAY... WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON TO EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY... HOT AFTERNOONS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS WEEKEND TO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 854 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009 TXZ192-301445- TRAVIS- 854 AM CDT TUE JUN 30 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING TRAVIS COUNTY... AT 850 AM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS ARE TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL TRAVIS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF AUSTIN. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE OCCURRING FROM THE AUSTIN/BERGSTROM AIRPORT TO ONION CREEK AND SUNSET VALLEY. RAINFALL RATES WERE ESTIMATED AT ONE TO 1.75 INCHES AN HOUR. RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL OVER URBAN AREAS WILL RESULT IN MINOR STREET FLOODING AND SLIPPERY ROADWAYS.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:01 UTC.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
An apartment complex was struck by lightning. There was a resulting fire that caused damage to the complex.
Lightning struck a residence on Encinal Cove and started a house fire.
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