The Park Road Wildfire burned 557 acres in Burnet County. The fire started on July 29th and was contained on August 3rd.
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The Park Road Wildfire burned 557 acres in Burnet County. The fire started on July 29th and was contained on August 3rd.
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 31, 11:34 PM CST, 26 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 1234 AM CDT Wed Aug 1 2018 .AVIATION... VFR skies will prevail overnight through Wednesday night. Variable winds will become mainly N to NE at 5 to 10 KTs during the day on Wednesday. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 820 PM CDT Tue Jul 31 2018/ UPDATE... Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms have developed this evening in the San Antonio metro area due to some enhanced lift from outflow boundaries across the region and have managed to tap into the available instability in the atmosphere. These storms will continue to progress southward across southern Bexar into Wilson and Atascosa Counties. These should begin to dissipate after sunset. Brief heavy downpours, frequent cloud to ground lightning, and some gusty winds will be possible with these storms. Grids have been updated to show an increase in PoPs and these enhanced PoPs have been extended out to 3z (10 pm local time). Otherwise, the forecast for tonight is mostly on track as storms should indeed come to an end with the loss of daytime heating and decrease in instability in the hours following sunset. Temperatures across portions of the Hill Country should drop into the mid to upper 60s overnight as cooler and drier air filters in behind the passing cold front from earlier today. Elsewhere, low temps will range from 70 to 75 as clouds should continue to clear from north to south overnight. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 254 PM CDT Tue Jul 31 2018/ SHORT TERM (Tonight through Wednesday Night)... The front has made it through the area with everyone seeing north winds this afternoon. While some gusts are possible to 15 to 20 mph winds will generally be around 10 to 15 mph. Skies should continue to gradually clear through the late afternoon and evening hours as drier air tries to make it down into Central Texas. Any precipitation through the afternoon and evening hours will be scattered across the Rio Grande Plains and areas east of Interstate 35. As of 2:30 parts of Lavaca County are seeing a few isolated thunderstorms with some showers ongoing across Lee County. By late tonight rain chances should end across South Central Texas and skies will continue to clear leading to a partly cloudy to mostly clear night with temperatures dropping into the mid 60s across the Hill Country with low to mid-70s elsewhere. Lows for tonight and Wednesday night will be near seasonal normals and fairly nice. Other than a few seasonable nights this front will do little to cool temperatures as highs on Wednesday will return to running a few degrees above normal under sunny skies. Dewpoints for Wednesday will remain in the 50s with the north and northeast wind maintaining some drier air which will keep heat index values down. LONG TERM (Thursday through Tuesday)... High pressure will slide back east beginning Wednesday into Thursday. The GFS and NAM show an upper level disturbance rotating around the ridge late on Thursday and into Friday. While the NAM brings shows some precipitation across the Edwards Plateau the GFS keeps the precipitation across far west Texas. The ECMWF does not show this feature and builds the ridge farther east for Thursday and Friday. Will lean towards the ECMWF and keep the forecast dry into the weekend across South Central Texas. By Friday afternoon southerly flow at the surface returns allowing for moisture to begin to increase across the area. This is further aided by an inverted trough or weakness in the ridge that develops across South Texas into the weekend. This will switch winds in the mid-levels around to the southeast as well. This inverted trough and southerly flow will allow for enhanced sea breeze for Saturday into the weekend. This means that the best chances for rain will remain along the Coastal Plains but a few isolated showers or thunderstorms could make it up towards the I-35 corridor each afternoon through the weekend. Any weekend plans should not be a washout by any means due to the isolated nature of this activity. The ridge looks to flatten across the four corners region on Monday before strengthening again into the middle of next week. Due to the increased moisture beginning on Friday high temperatures each afternoon should remain closer to normal in the upper 90s rather than topping the century mark. While these rain chances from the sea breeze next week are only slight chance and chance, and do not guarantee rain on everyone by any means, we will certainly take any and all rain chances that we can get at this point in the summer! && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Austin Camp Mabry 72 97 73 97 73 / 0 0 0 0 0 Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport 69 97 71 97 72 / 0 0 0 0 0 New Braunfels Muni Airport 70 97 71 97 72 / 0 0 0 0 0 Burnet Muni Airport 70 96 71 96 72 / 0 0 0 0 0 Del Rio Intl Airport 76 101 77 100 76 / 0 10 10 0 0 Georgetown Muni Airport 70 96 72 97 72 / 0 - 0 0 0 Hondo Muni Airport 70 100 71 99 72 / 0 0 0 0 0 San Marcos Muni Airport 70 97 72 97 72 / 0 0 0 0 0 La Grange - Fayette Regional 71 97 72 97 72 / 0 0 0 10 - San Antonio Intl Airport 72 97 74 97 74 / 0 0 0 0 0 Stinson Muni Airport 72 98 74 98 74 / 0 0 0 0 0 && .EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && Mesoscale/Aviation...04 Synoptic/Grids...Oaks
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX 504 AM CDT Tue Jul 31 2018 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-011015- 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- 504 AM CDT Tue Jul 31 2018 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...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated.
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
832 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2018
TXZ204-205-219-220-010215-
Frio TX-Bexar TX-Atascosa TX-Medina TX-
832 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2018
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MEDINA...
NORTHEASTERN FRIO...NORTHWESTERN ATASCOSA AND SOUTHWESTERN BEXAR
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT...
At 831 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 8 miles southwest of Elmendorf to Natalia.
Movement was south southwest at 25 mph.
Pea size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Pleasanton, Devine, Jourdanton, Poteet, Lytle, Somerset, Elmendorf,
Natalia, Lacoste, Moore, Noonan, Pearson, Leming, Schattel, Bigfoot,
Sandy Oaks, Von Ormy, Iuka, Losoya and Kyote.
LAT...LON 2895 9906 2932 9888 2925 9834 2917 9836
2911 9841 2908 9838 2887 9843
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 017DEG 23KT 2919 9845 2921 9886
YB/BWPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
838 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2018
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0830 PM HAIL 1 NW LYTLE 29.24N 98.81W
07/31/2018 E0.50 INCH MEDINA TX PUBLIC
PUBLIC REPORTS .5 INCH HAIL IN LYTLE VIA
SOCIAL MEDIA.
&&
YBSpecial Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
914 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2018
TXZ220-010300-
Atascosa TX-
914 PM CDT TUE JUL 31 2018
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ATASCOSA COUNTY
UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...
At 914 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pleasanton, moving south at 35 mph.
Dime size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Pleasanton, Jourdanton, Christine, Campbellton, Coughran and McCoy.
LAT...LON 2864 9834 2864 9859 2902 9858 2904 9833
2901 9831 2870 9821 2861 9833
TIME...MOT...LOC 0214Z 352DEG 33KT 2893 9844
BMWThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Park Road Wildfire burned 557 acres in Burnet County. The fire started on July 29th and was contained on August 3rd.
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