Drought — Lee, Texas

2020-11-01 to 2020-11-30 · Lee, Texas

Event narrative

November was another month of mostly below normal rainfall across South Central Texas. Most of the northern half of the area had less than 50% of normal with some places in the northwest having less than 10%. In most of our counties the drought worsened during the month. Bandera, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall, and Kerr Counties entered Extreme (D3) Drought. Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Edwards, Guadalupe, Hays, Kinney, Lee, Llano, Real, Travis, Val Verde, and Williamson ended the month in Severe (D2) Drought. Uvalde and Zavala remained in D3, and Dimmit, Frio, and Maverick stayed in D2. Medina County with near normal rain actually improved from D3 to D2. Public water systems across the region had instituted some level of water restrictions. The Pecos, Frio, Nueces, Medina, and lower Guadalupe river basins reported much below normal seven-day stream flows at the end of the month. The upper and middle Guadalupe, San Antonio, Blanco, San Marcos. Brazos, and Colorado river basins reported below normal seven-day flows. Reservoirs in the drought areas were below normal with Lake Amistad 44 feet below normal. All of the counties in D2 or worse drought had outdoor burn bans in effect except Burnet, Kerr, and Bastrop.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 928642. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.