An upper level low pressure over Mexico moved east across South Central Texas producing widespread rains of 1-3 inches over a 2 day period. Many roads and low water crossings were closed in and around San Antonio.
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The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
An upper level low pressure over Mexico moved east across South Central Texas producing widespread rains of 1-3 inches over a 2 day period. Many roads and low water crossings were closed in and around San Antonio. One death occurred when a vehicle was swept off the road into Cibolo Creek on the Comal/Bexar county line.
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 Feb 3, 11:23 PM CST, 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1123 PM CST WED FEB 3 2010 .DISCUSSION... SEE AVIATION FOR THE 06Z TAF DISCUSSION. && .AVIATION... IFR/LIFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL OVERNIGHT WITH A BRIEF IMPROVEMENT TO MVFR LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE OVERRUNNING WX PATTERN WILL PERSIST TONIGHT RESULTING IN LOW CLOUDS...LIGHT FOG AND STRATIFORM PCPN. RAINFALL WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST ON THURSDAY WITH THE APPROACH OF THE UPPER LEVEL TROF AXIS AND ASSOCIATED DRYING ALOFT. A SFC LOW IS LOCATED OVER DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND THIS FEATURE WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST...KEEPING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE TEXAS COAST. THUS SFC WINDS TONIGHT WILL BE NORTHEAST BECOMING NORTHERLY ON THURSDAY. WIND SPEEDS WILL BE 10 TO 15 KTS OVERNIGHT AND AROUND 10 KTS ON THURSDAY. IFR CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO THE I-35 TERMINALS BY 06Z FRIDAY DUE TO COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RESIDUAL MOISTURE IN THE SOIL AND BOUNDARY LAYER. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 842 PM CST WED FEB 3 2010/ UPDATE... AREA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOW THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED OFF TO THE EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AT MID EVENING. WITH TROUGH AXIS STILL TO THE WEST, UPWARD MOTIONS, AND AMPLE MOISTURE WILL MAINTAIN HIGH POPS OVERNIGHT, ALTHOUGH HAVE LOWERED RAINFALL AMOUNTS. DUE TO CLOUDS AND RAIN HAVE RAISED TEMPERATURES, DEWPOINTS, AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES SLIGHTLY FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. OTHERWISE, ONGOING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST IS ON TRACK. && PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 339 PM CST WED FEB 3 2010/ DISCUSSION... PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN...WITH EMBEDDED MODERATE TO HEAVY DOWNPOURS...WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A WEAK WARM FRONT ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST WILL STREAM NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BEFORE RETREATING TO THE COAST. THIS FEATURE WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FOCUS FOR HIGHER RAINFALL. AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. OTHERWISE...NEW RAINFALL TOTALS FROM NOW THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM ONE THIRD OF AN INCH TO NEAR ONE INCH. AS THE UPPER LOW PUSHES ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO AND EJECTS TO THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT...DRYING FROM WEST TO EAST WILL ENSUE. A RAINY START IS EXPECTED FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF THE REGION THURSDAY MORNING...WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE LINGERING ACTIVITY CLEARING OUT DURING THE AFTERNOON. WRAP-AROUND CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY WITH GRADUAL CLEARING OVERNIGHT. DUE TO THE CONTINUING RAIN AND OVERCAST CONDITIONS...HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE MID 50S ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS TO THE MID AND UPPER 40S ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES. AS THINGS BEGIN TO DRY OUT ON FRIDAY...WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. A WEAK COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. MOIST GULF FLOW WILL RETURN ON SUNDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL RE-ENTER THE FORECAST ON SUNDAY AND INCREASE OVERNIGHT AND INTO MONDAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT LOOK TO BE WELL BELOW NORMAL FOR EARLY FEBRUARY...WITH FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY MORNING. AT THE MOMENT...IT APPEARS THAT RAIN CHANCES WILL END BEFORE THE COLDEST AIR GETS HERE...SO ANY PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE LIQUID. HOWEVER...GIVEN THAT THIS IS 5-PLUS DAYS OUT...MODELS COULD VARY IN TIMING AND STRENGTH OF THE FRONT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 43 48 41 60 40 / 100 40 10 0 - AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 46 47 39 60 35 / 100 40 10 0 - NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 44 51 40 63 38 / 100 40 10 0 - BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 41 46 36 60 38 / 100 40 10 0 - DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 47 57 42 70 41 / 40 10 0 0 - GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 42 46 40 59 38 / 100 50 10 0 - HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 47 56 42 68 40 / 100 20 - 0 - SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 46 49 42 62 37 / 100 40 10 0 - LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 48 51 42 61 40 / 100 50 10 0 - SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 46 54 43 66 41 / 100 30 10 0 - STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 49 55 44 67 41 / 100 30 10 0 - && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 04/13
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 330 PM CST WED FEB 3 2010 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041200- 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- 330 PM CST WED FEB 3 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL VARY FROM 1/3 TO 1 INCH OVER THE WEST PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TO 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER THE EAST PART OF THE AREA. THIS COULD CAUSE SOME TYPICAL URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 281...INCLUDING THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METRO AREAS. .DAY TWO...THURSDAY... RAINS IN THE MORNING WILL DIMINISH IN THE AFTERNOON...WITH STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS GENERALLY RANGING FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES ACROSS THE AREA. URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG WITH SOME RIVER FLOODING IN THE MORNING...SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 GOING EAST OF SAN ANTONIO. .DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... COLDER WEATHER IS EXPECTED AGAIN ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK IN WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT...OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:02 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A car was apparently swept off the road during the middle of the night and later recovered in Cibolo Creek. The man driving the car was found dead inside the vehicle.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Bexar | 2010-02-04 | 55 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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