A cold front moved through South Central Texas producing thunderstorms. 8 inches in about three hours.
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The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
A cold front moved through South Central Texas producing thunderstorms. Some of these storms produced heavy rain with rainfall totals of one to 2.8 inches in about three hours. The heavy rain led to flash flooding in Bexar County.
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 Oct 26, 11:58 AM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1258 PM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012 .DISCUSSION... SEE THE 18Z AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WE HAVE INCLUDED A MENTION OF TSRA AT KSAT AND KSSF FOR THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS...ALONG WITH -SHRA AT KAUS. CIGS WILL GENERALLY REMAIN MVFR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON ALONG THE I-35 SITES WITH VFR CIGS AT KDRT. CIGS SHOULD REMAIN NEARLY STEADY THROUGH EARLY EVENING...THEN SLOWLY RISE OVERNIGHT AS DRY AIR ADVECTION IN THE LOW-LEVELS SERVES TO SLOWLY ERODE THE LOW CLOUD LAYER. BKN-OVC VFR CIGS WITH BASES AROUND 5K AGL ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH TOMORROW AFTERNOON. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 859 AM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012/ UPDATE... QUICK UPDATE MADE TO INCREASE POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY AND ADD ISOLATED THUNDER OVER THE HILL COUNTRY INTO S CENTRAL TX WHERE A WEAK SHORT WAVE APPEARS TO BE ENHANCING CONVECTION. NO OTHER CHANGES MADE TO FORECAST AT THIS TIME. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 601 AM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012/ AVIATION... /12Z TAFS/ A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT. THIS HAS RESULTED IN CLOUDY SKIES WITH MVFR CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST AREAS OVERNIGHT AND EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. SOME LIGHT PATCHY RAIN SHOWERS ARE ANTICIPATED THIS MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON PERIOD WITH NO IMPACT TO AREA TERMINALS. CIGS TO LIFT TO VFR LATER THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH TO NORTH WINDS 13 TO 18 KNOTS WITH GUSTS UP TO 27 KNOTS POSSIBLE MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 417 AM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012/ DISCUSSION... A STRONG COLD FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING. ISENTROPIC LIFT IN ITS WAKE HAS GENERATED ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS. EXPECT THIS LIFT TO CONTINUE MUCH OF TODAY AND HAVE GONE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HOWEVER... CAN NOT RULE OUT ISOLATED LIGHTNING STRIKES. CLOUDY SKIES AND RAIN WILL MAKE TEMPERATURES STRUGGLE TO WARM AND HAVE BASICALLY KEPT TEMPERATURES STEADY. A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT GENERATING NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH WILL MAKE TEMPERATURES FEEL EVEN COOLER. ISENTROPIC LIFT ENDS THIS EVENING WITH SOME LOWER LEVEL DRYING TAKING PLACE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY AS A SURFACE HIGH CONTINUES TO BUILD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AREAS OF MID LEVEL CLOUDINESS AND NORTHERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH WILL INHIBIT EFFICIENT RADIATIONAL COOLING TONIGHT. CLOUDS DECREASE ON SATURDAY LEADING TO SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES. THE LOSS OF CLOUDS AND LIGHTER WINDS WILL RESULT IN EFFICIENT RADIATIONAL COOLING SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT. LOWS IN THE 30S CAN BE EXPECTED IN PARTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY AND A FEW LOW LYING SPOTS ALONG THE ESCARPMENT. A WARMING TREND BEGINS MONDAY AS SOUTHERLY LOWER LEVEL FLOW RETURNS WITH NIGHT AND MORNING STRATUS DEVELOPING BY WEDNESDAY. BEYOND THIS FORECAST...NEXT WEEKEND...SOME MODELS ARE SHOWING AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH GENERATING RAIN CHANCES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AUSTIN CAMP MABRY 48 65 42 65 42 / - 0 0 0 0 AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AIRPORT 48 64 38 65 38 / - 0 0 0 0 NEW BRAUNFELS MUNI AIRPORT 47 64 41 65 42 / - - 0 0 0 BURNET MUNI AIRPORT 41 62 37 63 39 / - 0 0 0 0 DEL RIO INTL AIRPORT 49 62 46 67 47 / - - 0 0 0 GEORGETOWN MUNI AIRPORT 43 63 39 64 41 / - 0 0 0 0 HONDO MUNI AIRPORT 48 63 41 66 40 / - - 0 0 0 SAN MARCOS MUNI AIRPORT 46 64 40 65 41 / - 0 0 0 0 LA GRANGE - FAYETTE REGIONAL 47 63 41 66 41 / 10 - 0 0 0 SAN ANTONIO INTL AIRPORT 49 63 42 66 43 / - - 0 0 0 STINSON MUNI AIRPORT 50 63 45 66 43 / 10 - 0 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && MESOSCALE/AVIATION...24 SYNOPTIC/GRIDS...01 PUBLIC SERVICE/DATA COLLECTION...33
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 518 AM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-271030- 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- 518 AM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1240 PM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012 TXZ221-261830- WILSON- 1240 PM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM CDT... AT 1235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF FLORESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM... ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... FLORESVILLE... POTH... STATE HIGHWAY 97... U.S. HIGHWAY 181... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 2927 9781 2900 9805 2919 9829 2932 9822 TIME...MOT...LOC 1738Z 287DEG 12KT 2922 9817
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
104 PM CDT FRI OCT 26 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1259 PM HEAVY RAIN FLORESVILLE 29.14N 98.16W
10/26/2012 M1.49 INCH WILSON TX TRAINED SPOTTER
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EVENT NUMBER EWX1200495
CVPThe Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:14 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Vance Jackson Rd. at Orsinger St.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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