Texas, 2025

Flash Flooding and Flood in Texas, September 7, 2025

September 7, 2025 · NWS EWX · 3 events in 2 counties and zones

Isentropic lift over a relatively cool airmass produced showers and thunderstorms that eventually produced excessive rainfall and isolated flash flooding.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.

Isentropic lift over a relatively cool airmass produced showers and thunderstorms that eventually produced excessive rainfall and isolated flash flooding.

What forecasters said that day

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 Sep 7, 12:37 PM CST, 53 minutes earlier. Its key messages:

  • Locally heavy rain possible across portions of the southern Edwards Plateau, Rio Grande, and coastal plains for the rest of this afternoon. Localized flooding possible.
  • Dry conditions return on Monday across most areas of south central Texas with drier weather forecast for the rest of the work week.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 12:37 PM CST, 53 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
137 PM CDT Sun Sep 7 2025

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Locally heavy rain possible across portions of the southern
Edwards Plateau, Rio Grande, and coastal plains for the rest of this
afternoon. Localized flooding possible.

- Dry conditions return on Monday across most areas of south central
Texas with drier weather forecast for the rest of the work week.

&&

.SHORT TERM (THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)...
Light to moderate showers and isolated pockets of heavy rain are
affecting most of south central Texas early this afternoon. This
activity is forecast to persist across the local area and especially
across the southern Edwards Plateau, Rio Grande, and coastal
plains through late afternoon. The cold front that moved across
the local area on Saturday sits along the middle Texas coast
with Gulf moisture being transported into the region from above
the surface. Pwats are still elevated running from 2.0 to 2.4
inches across most of south central Texas with the potential for
heavy rain placement across the southern Edwards Plateau, Rio
Grande, and coastal plains. The NAM, GFS, and other hires models
suggest for a mid level low pressure to develop over the
southern Edwards PLateau this afternoon. When looking at radar
trends, a cyclonic circulation appears over the northwest part
of Frio county and could be the feature the model guidance are
seeing. This feature is forecast to push to the south into the
Corpus Christi area this afternoon into the evening. With that
said, the feature looks like to be the main driver combined with
elevated pwat values to get additional rainfall amounts ranging
from 1 to 3 inches with isolated 4 inches through 7 PM CDT this
evening.

By this evening into the overnight hours, parts of the Rio Grande
could still see lingering light showers. This trend persists into
Monday with the rest of the local area staying dry. By Monday
evening, drier conditions spread across south central Texas.

Cooler temperatures are anticipated overnight with lows in the
mid 60s to mid 70s and Monday's highs in the lower 80s to lower
90s across the local area.

&&

.LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...
Dry weather conditions are forecast for the long term forecast
period with some coastal shower and thunderstorm activity late
week into the weekend especially during the afternoon hours.

A warming trend is forecast throughout the week with highs back
into the mid to upper 90s along the I-35 corridor and coastal
plains areas and 80s across the Hill Country and southern
Edwards Plateau.

&&

.AVIATION (18Z SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...
Showers continue from the Rio Grande eastward into the I-35
corridor, with the more persistent activity between SAT/SSF and DRT.
We have adjusted the forecast to mention showers with TEMPO MVFR
cigs/vsbys through the early afternoon hours. We also removed the
mention of TS for the I-35 sites, but will continue for DRT given IR
satellite and radar trends. Convection should wane with the loss of
daytime heating by early evening along I-35, with some lingering
convection possible into mid-evening at DRT. Drier air in the low-
levels moves in from the northeast and will keep the forecast just
above MVFR at AUS. We will mention MVFR cigs at SAT given locally
higher rainfall amounts and wet ground. MVFR also appears favorable
at DRT given southeast flow just above the surface.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Austin Camp Mabry              70  91  66  94 /  10   0   0   0
Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport  70  91  63  93 /  10   0   0   0
New Braunfels Muni Airport     70  92  65  94 /  10  10   0   0
Burnet Muni Airport            67  86  65  89 /   0   0   0   0
Del Rio Intl Airport           73  89  73  92 /  30  20   0   0
Georgetown Muni Airport        68  89  62  91 /   0   0   0   0
Hondo Muni Airport             70  89  68  93 /  20  10   0   0
San Marcos Muni Airport        70  93  63  95 /  10   0   0   0
La Grange - Fayette Regional   70  90  61  92 /  10   0   0   0
San Antonio Intl Airport       73  91  69  94 /  20  10   0   0
Stinson Muni Airport           74  93  70  95 /  20  10   0   0

&&

.EWX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.

&&

SHORT TERM...17
LONG TERM...17
AVIATION...Platt

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:31 UTC.

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Event by event

2 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Maverick

When
September 7, 1:30 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
Where
Maverick County, 1.16 mi ENE of Eagle Pass to 1.05 mi E of Eagle Pass
Cause
Heavy Rain
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
28.724, -100.481

Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Two and half inches of rain fell in Eagle Pass, which led to flooding at the intersection of Royal Point Dr. and Royal Ridge Dr. A person was rescued from a car stranded in the flood water.

Flash Flood, Maverick

When
September 7, 1:41 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
Where
Maverick County, 0.61 mi W of Eagle Pass Muni Arpt to 0.39 mi W of Eagle Pass Muni Arpt
Cause
Heavy Rain
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
28.700, -100.490

Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Rising and fast moving water closed Roosevelt St. in Eagle Pass after 2.5 inches of rain fell.

Flood, Uvalde

When
September 7, 2:34 PM CST to 3:30 PM CST
Where
Uvalde County, Montell to 0.44 mi WNW of Montell
Cause
Heavy Rain
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
29.530, -100.020

Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. One and a half to two inches of rain sent Montell Creek over Hwy 55 near Montell.

What these are

Flash Flood
Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
Flood
Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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Sources

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: 1294871, 1294872, 1294875.