Drought — Edwards, Texas

2025-05-01 to 2025-05-31 · Edwards, Texas

Event narrative

Most of South-Central Texas received above normal precipitation during the month. Some places had two to three times their normal. As a result, drought conditions improved in most of our counties and remained the same everywhere else. Blanco, Frio, Gillespie, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Val Verde, Wilson, and Zavala improved from Exceptional (D4) drought category to Extreme (D3) drought. Dimmit, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Llano, and Travis improved from D3 to Severe (D2) drought. Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, and Uvalde remained in D4. Comal, Edwards, and Hays stayed in D3. Burnet and Williamson remained in D2. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was below (10%-24%) normal on the upper Nueces, Frio, and lower Guadalupe Rivers; normal to below normal on the lower Nueces. All other rivers had improved to normal or better. The Edwards Aquifer rose 1.6 feet but was still 28.6 feet below normal. Medina Lake rose 0.2 feet and was 94.4 feet below normal. Lake Travis rose 1.9 feet and was 43.8 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 0.7 feet and was 31.8 feet below normal. Lake Amistad rose 0.2 feet and was 68.0 feet below normal. Lake Buchanan rose 1.2 feet and was 20.1 below normal. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Karnes, Kinney, Real, 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, Del Rio, and Austin had stage 2. New Braunfels changed from stage 2 to stage 3.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1265444. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.