Drought — Uvalde, Texas

2025-06-01 to 2025-06-30 · Uvalde, Texas

Event narrative

A large portion of the eastern half of South-Central Texas received above normal rainfall in June. This led to drought improvement in a number of counties and no change in all of the others. Atascosa, Bexar, and Kendall improved from Exceptional (D4) drought category to Extreme (D3) drought. Blanco, Comal, Hays, Val Verde, and Wilson improved from D3 to Severe (D2) drought. Bandera, Kerr, Medina, and Uvalde remained in D4. Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Kinney, Maverick, Real, and Zavala stayed in D3. Dimmit, Guadalupe, and Travis stayed in D2. The 7-day average streamflow at the end of the month was much below (<10%) normal on the upper San Antonio River; below (10%-24%) to much below normal on the upper Nueces, Frio, Medina, and upper Guadalupe Rivers; below normal on the Llano River; normal to below normal on the upper Colorado and San Gabriel Rivers. All other rivers were normal or better. The Edwards Aquifer rose 3.9 feet but was still 21.8 feet below normal. Medina Lake rose 1.7 feet but was 92.7 feet below normal. Lake Travis rose 0.3 feet but was 43.5 feet below normal. Canyon Lake rose 0.8 feet but was 31.0 feet below normal. Lake Amistad rose 1.2 feet but was 66.8 feet below normal. Lake Buchanan rose 2.7 feet but was 17.4 below normal. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought Dimmit, Edwards, Kerr, and Val Verde 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, New Braunfels, and Kerrville had stage 3, and Georgetown, Del Rio, and Austin had stage 2.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1271062. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.