Drought — De Witt, Texas

2025-03-01 to 2025-03-31 · De Witt, Texas

Event narrative

Most of South-Central Texas had another month of near to below normal precipitation, and the drought worsened or remained the same. Wilson County saw the biggest change from Severe (D2) Drought category to Exceptional (D4) Drought. Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, and Real counties went from Extreme (D3) Drought to D4. Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Kinney, Lavaca, Llano, Val Verde, and Williamson went from D2 to D3. Bastrop, Fayette, and Karnes went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of our counties were unchanged: Medina D4; Comal, Hays, Maverick, Travis, Uvalde, and Zavala D3; Caldwell and De Witt D2. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was much below (<10%) normal on the Frio, Medina, upper Nueces, lower Guadalupe, Pedernales, and lower Colorado Rivers. The upper San Antonio, upper Guadalupe, upper Colorado, and the Pedernales Rivers were below (10%-24%) normal. The Edwards Aquifer dropped 0.5 feet and was 36.6 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 0.5 feet and was 93.9 feet below normal. Lake Travis dropped 0.7 feet and was 44.7 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 0.8 feet and was 30.4 feet below normal. Lake Amistad dropped 0.3 feet and was 66.2 feet below normal. Lake Buchanan dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.6 below normal. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Burnet, Caldwell, De Witt, Dimmit, Edwards, Fayette, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kinney, Llano, Medina, Real, Travis, Williamson, Wilson, Val Verde, 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.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1234398. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.