Drought — Kinney, Texas

2023-02-01 to 2023-02-28 · Kinney, Texas

Event narrative

February was another dry month across South Central Texas. Most of the area received less than 50% of normal precipitation. This worsened the drought in several counties. Burnet and Uvalde Counties went from Severe (D2) drought to Extreme (D3) drought and Llano and Real went from less than D2 to D3. Everywhere else was unchanged. Dimmit, Guadalupe, Kinney, and Zavala stayed in D2. Bandera, Bexar, Gillespie, Hays, Kerr, and Medina stayed in D3. Blanco, Comal, and Kendall stayed in Exceptional (D4) drought. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Kendall, Kerr, Llano, Real, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was much below normal (<10%) on the Medina River, below normal (10%-24%) on the San Antonio River, much below normal on the Guadalupe River, and much below normal on the upper Colorado River. The Edwards Aquifer was down slightly to 32.8 feet below average. Area reservoirs were below normal conservation pool elevation. Medina Lake dropped 2.3 feet to 81.6 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 0.5 feet to 11.2 feet below normal. Most public water systems encouraged at least voluntary water restrictions and many had mandatory restrictions in effect. Some the larger services had the following: New Braunfels Stage 1, San Antonio Stage 2, and Kerrville Stage 1.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1080863. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.