An upper level trough moved across Texas and interacted with a moist boundary layer to generate thunderstorms across South Central Texas. Some of these storms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
An upper level trough moved across Texas and interacted with a moist boundary layer to generate thunderstorms across South Central Texas. Some of these storms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding.
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 3, 5:43 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 643 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016 .AVIATION... NOT MUCH CHANGE IN CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS AS AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN OVER TEXAS. WE DECIDED THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE THE FORECAST IS WITH VCSH UNTIL 21Z SATURDAY...THEN VCTS UNTIL THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD. WHILE THE CHANCES OF -TSRA ARE FAIRLY MINIMAL...THEY WILL BE IN THE VCNTY OF NEARLY ALL SITES AT SOME POINT...AND MAYBE REPEATEDLY THROUGHOUT THE TAF PERIOD. OTHERWISE...EXPECT WINDS TO BECOME NORTH AND CIGS TO DROP AS LOW AS HIGH-END MVFR BETWEEN 06-16Z. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 242 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016/ SHORT TERM (Tonight through Saturday Night)... The upper level low is currently centered near our northern CWA and continues to slowly move. We are seeing convection to either side of the center with storms moving from the south to our east and storms coming from the north to the west. This trend should continue though the afternoon hours. There will be a threat for thunderstorms to develop closer to the center of the low late this afternoon and overnight. Some of the high-res guidance is showing this as convection develops closer to the center of the surface low which should be near our southeastern CWA and near a moisture gradient in the CRP CWA. Will have the highest PoPs in this location tonight and this area is most likely to see the heavier rain totals. For tomorrow, high-res models are showing a higher coverage of activity across the CWA versus today. Moisture is expected to increase under the low with PW values rising above 1.8 inches across the eastern half of the CWA. In addition, models are progging Q-Vector convergence on the backside of the upper low which will allow for rising motions in the atmosphere to allow for convective development. The best chances for rain will be east of Highway 83. Over the past 7 days, much of the area has seen heavy rainfall with some locations just west of San Antonio picking up over 10 inches. In addition, the past couple of weeks have been very wet across the eastern counties. We are only expecting additional accumulations of precip to average 0.5 to 2 inches as we normally do not see abnormally high amounts with north flow throughout the atmospheric column. However, given the antecedent conditions with all of the rainfall we have received, we will extend the Flash Flood Watch for areas east of Highway 83 until tomorrow evening. By tomorrow night, the upper low should begin to break down as it moves slowly to the southeast and will show our higher PoPs in the south, but these will only be 40-50 percent. LONG TERM (Sunday through Friday)... By Sunday, the upper low is expected to be sagging into Deep South Texas. As it does so, the PoPs should move south with it. By Monday afternoon, slight chance PoPs will remain across the south with rain free conditions by Monday night. Most of the area should remain rain free through Thursday, besides one or two showers and storms across the Coastal Plains. High temperatures next week will average in the upper 80s to lower 90s with lows in the 60s and 70s. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Austin Camp Mabry 67 82 67 86 65 / 60 70 40 20 - Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport 66 82 67 86 64 / 60 70 40 30 10 New Braunfels Muni Airport 66 82 67 85 64 / 60 70 40 30 20 Burnet Muni Airport 65 81 64 85 62 / 60 60 30 20 0 Del Rio Intl Airport 66 86 67 90 64 / 10 30 10 10 0 Georgetown Muni Airport 66 80 66 84 63 / 60 60 40 20 - Hondo Muni Airport 66 83 66 86 63 / 40 60 30 20 10 San Marcos Muni Airport 65 81 67 85 64 / 60 70 40 30 10 La Grange - Fayette Regional 68 81 68 84 66 / 60 70 50 30 10 San Antonio Intl Airport 67 82 68 85 65 / 60 60 40 30 10 Stinson Muni Airport 68 83 69 86 67 / 50 70 40 30 20 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Flash Flood Watch through Saturday evening for the following counties: Atascosa...Bandera...Bastrop...Bexar...Blanco...Burnet... Caldwell...Comal...De Witt...Fayette...Frio...Gillespie... Gonzales...Guadalupe...Hays...Karnes...Kendall...Kerr...Lavaca... Lee...Llano...Medina...Travis...Williamson...Wilson. && Mesoscale/Aviation...26 Synoptic/Grids...05 Public Service/Data Collection...Treadway
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-042045- 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- 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WITH RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THESE RATES IN COMBINATION WITH SATURATED SOILS WILL RESULT IN RAPID FLASH FLOODING. ALSO...RAPID RISES ON ALREADY ELEVATED RIVERS AND STREAMS ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT...A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY WILL BECOME MORE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ON SUNDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE...HOWEVER THIS POTENTIAL SHOULD WANE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT...A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:37 UTC.
7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a swift water rescue in Delhi off Hwy 304 where two vehicles were in the water.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue along Bull Creek on Spicewood Springs Rd. in northern Austin.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a water rescue by the Austin PD on Spicewood Springs Rd. near Bull Creek.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding resulting in a swift water rescue by the Austin PD near Anderson Mill Rd. and Millwright Pkwy.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding requiring the Austin PD to respond to a call for flood assistance at N. Lamar Blvd. and W. 10th St. near Shoal Creek.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding damaging the residential bridge on Silvermine Dr. at Williamson Creek near Hwy 71.
The body of a man was discovered in Bull Creek just downstream from a low water crossing. A flooded pickup was found nearby. Time of the incident is estimated since there are no witnesses to the event. The cause of death was ruled drowning by the medical examiner.
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, Travis | 2016-06-03 | 46 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, June 2016
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 642211, 642212, 642213, 642214, 642215, 642223, 646433.