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880 AWUS01 KWNH 140152 FFGMPD TXZ000-140750- Mesoscale Precipitation Discussion 0677 NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 950 PM EDT Sun Jul 13 2025 Areas affected...Portions of the TX Hill Country and South-Central TX Concerning...Heavy rainfall...Flash flooding possible Valid 140150Z - 140750Z SUMMARY...Showers and thunderstorms may expand in coverage over the next several hours. Very heavy rainfall rates and slow cell-motions will be possible, and this may result in some areas of flash flooding. DISCUSSION...Early evening GOES-E IR satellite imagery along with recent radar trends shows developing areas of showers and thunderstorms across portions of south-central TX close to the Rio Grande River. Some weak vort energy is appearing in satellite data across northern Mexico which is slowly drifting off to the northeast toward south-central TX. An unstable airmass is pooled up across much of the Lower Rio Grande Valley with moist southeast low-level flow in place, and a moderate to strongly unstable boundary layer. MLCAPE values of 1500 to 2500+ J/kg are noted in the latest RAP analysis, and this vort energy encroaching on south-central TX and at least some portions of the TX Hill Country may support some expansion of heavy shower and thunderstorm activity over the next several hours. PWs across the region are very moist with values of 1.8 to 2.2 inches. This coupled with the instability should favor high rainfall rates reaching as high as 2 to 3 inches/hour with any of the stronger and more organized convective cells that do materialize. The latest hires model guidance is rather inconsistent on the timing and placement of the heaviest rainfall potential going into the overnight hours, but the ingredients are in place for some expansion of the convective threat over the next several hours. Some spotty rainfall totals going through 06Z (1AM CDT) may reach 3 to 5 inches. Some areas of flash flooding will be possible as a result. Orrison ...Please see www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov for graphic product... ATTN...WFO...CRP...EWX... ATTN...RFC...FWR...NWC... LAT...LON 30230034 29969934 29199870 28039887 27669962 28090028 28460050 29140085 29740150 30100135