Drought in Wilson, Texas

Most of South-Central Texas had below normal precipitation again in January and the drought remained unchanged or worsened. Blanco and Gillespie Counties worsened from Moderate (D1) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought. Kerr and Uvalde Counties went from Severe (D2) Drought category to D3. Llano went from Abnormally Dry (D0) to D2 and Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, and Val Verde went from D1 to D2. Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Hays, Kendall, Medina, and Travis remained in D3. Atascosa, Caldwell, Frio, Guadalupe, Real, Williamson, Wilson, and Zavala remained in D2. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was much below (<10%) normal on the Guadalupe, Frio, Colorado, Pedernales, and Medina Rivers. The Nueces and San Antonio Rivers were much below to below (10%-24%) normal. The Edwards Aquifer rose 0.5 feet but was still 37.9 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 0.7 feet and was 92.8 feet below normal. Lake Travis dropped 0.5 feet and was 43.6 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 0.8 feet and was 29.1 feet below normal. Lake Amistad was unchanged from December and was 65.8 feet below normal. Lake Buchanan dropped 0.9 feet and was 17.5 below normal. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Kendall, Kinney, Llano, Medina, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wilson, and Zavala had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month. Most public water systems encouraged at least voluntary water restrictions and many had mandatory restrictions. The City of Uvalde had stage 5, Fredericksburg had stage 4, San Antonio, Universal City, and Kerrville had stage 3, and Georgetown, New Braunfels, Del Rio, and Austin had stage 2.