Drought — Lee, Texas

2020-12-01 to 2020-12-31 · Lee, Texas

Event narrative

The drought continued over most of South Central Texas in December. Most of the area had less than normal precipitation during the month. Drought conditions worsened from Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) in Caldwell, Guadalupe, Kinney, Val Verde, and Williamson Counties and from Moderate (D1) to D2 in Fayette County. Bandera, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties remained in D3 and Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Hays, Lee, Llano, Maverick, Medina, Real, and Travis remained in D2. Large public water systems in Austin, Del Rio, Fredericksburg, Kerrville, New Braunfels, San Antonio, San Marcos, and Uvalde had some level of water restrictions. Most area reservoirs were below Conservation Pool level. Lake Amistad was 43.3 feet below, Medina Lake 32.2 feet, and Lake Travis 21.8 feet. Outdoor burn bans were in effect in Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Kendall, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Real, Val Verde, and Zavala Counties.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 935241. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.