Drought — Lee, Texas

2022-06-01 to 2022-06-30 · Lee, Texas

Event narrative

June was another month with below normal precipitation across South Central Texas and the drought continued to worsen. Atascosa and Edwards Counties moved from Extreme (D3) to Exceptional (D4) drought. Comal, De Witt, Gonzales, and Guadalupe moved from Severe (D2) to D3. Caldwell, Lee, and Travis moved into D2. Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Real, and Uvalde remained in D4. Bexar, Burnet, Frio, Kinney, Llano, Maverick, Wilson, and Zavala remained in D3. Dimmit, Hays, Lavaca, Val Verde, and Williamson remained in D2. All public water systems encouraged at least voluntary water restrictions and many had mandatory restrictions in effect. Some the larger services had the following: Fredericksburg Stage 3, New Braunfels Stage 3, San Antonio Stage 2, San Marcos Stage 2, Austin Stage 1, Del Rio Stage 1, Kerrville Stage 1, and Pleasanton Stage 1. The Edwards Aquifer dropped 1.9 feet and was 28.3 feet below normal. Area reservoirs continued to fall farther below normal conservation pool levels. Lake Amistad fell 4.5 feet to 62.5 feet below normal, Medina Lake was down 4.7 feet to 66.2 feet below normal, and Lake Travis dropped 2.5 feet to 31.0 feet below normal. All of the counties in D2 or worse drought had outdoor burn bans in effect. The 7-day average streamflow on the Upper Guadalupe River was near the all time low. All of the other rivers in the region were below to much below normal.

Wider weather episode

June was another month with below normal precipitation across South Central Texas and the drought continued to worsen. Atascosa and Edwards Counties moved from Extreme (D3) to Exceptional (D4) drought. Comal, De Witt, Gonzales, and Guadalupe moved from Severe (D2) to D3. Caldwell, Lee, and Travis moved into D2. Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Real, and Uvalde remained in D4. Bexar, Burnet, Frio, Kinney, Llano, Maverick, Wilson, and Zavala remained in D3. Dimmit, Hays, Lavaca, Val Verde, and Williamson remained in D2. All public water systems encouraged at least voluntary water restrictions and many had mandatory restrictions in effect. Some the larger services had the following: Fredericksburg Stage 3, New Braunfels Stage 3, San Antonio Stage 2, San Marcos Stage 2, Austin Stage 1, Del Rio Stage 1, Kerrville Stage 1, and Pleasanton Stage 1. The Edwards Aquifer dropped 1.9 feet and was 28.3 feet below normal. Area reservoirs continued to fall farther below normal conservation pool levels. Lake Amistad fell 4.5 feet to 62.5 feet below normal, Medina Lake was down 4.7 feet to 66.2 below normal, and Lake Travis dropped 2.5 feet to 31.0 feet below normal. All of the counties in D2 or worse drought had outdoor burn bans in effect. The 7-day average streamflow on the Upper Guadalupe River was near the all time low. All of the other rivers in the region were below to much below normal.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1033636. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.