Drought — Edwards, Texas

2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Edwards, Texas

Event narrative

Another dry month led to worsening drought conditions for South-Central Texas. Most of the region saw 50% or less of normal precipitation in February. Medina County went from Extreme (D3) Drought category to Exceptional (D4) Drought. Atascosa, Frio, Maverick, Real, and Zavala counties went from Severe (D2) Drought to D3. De Witt, Gonzales, and Lavaca counties went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of our counties remained unchanged. Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Uvalde, and Travis stayed in D3. Burnet, Caldwell, Dimmit, Edwards, Guadalupe, Kinney, Llano, Val Verde, Williamson, and Wilson remained in D2. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was much below (<10%) normal on the Guadalupe, Frio, Medina, and upper Nueces Rivers. The lower San Antonio River was normal to below (10%-24%) normal. The Colorado and San Gabriel Rivers were below normal. The Pedernales River was in the Low category. The Edwards Aquifer dropped 1.0 foot and was 37.7 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 0.6 feet and was 93.4 feet below normal. Lake Travis dropped 0.4 feet and was 44.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 0.5 feet and was 29.6 feet below normal. Lake Amistad dropped 0.1 feet and was 65.9 feet below normal. Lake Buchanan dropped 0.8 feet and was 18.3 below normal. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought only Kerr, Comal, Maverick, and Lavaca did not have 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.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1234248. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.