Weather

Statement as of 8:55 am CST on November 25, 2009

... Flood Warning extended until Monday morning... the Flood Warning
continues for
the Guadalupe River near Bloomington.
* Until Monday morning... or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 8:00 am Wednesday the stage was 26.7 feet.
* Moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
* Forecast... the river will crest around 26.7 feet by Wednesday
afternoon. The river will then begin to fall to below flood stage
Sunday afternoon.

* At 27.0 feet major flooding occurs. Flow downstream near Highway
35 is several hundred yards wide... cutting off many of the lowest
homes. Livestock are cut off and could drown. Pumps... tank
batteries... and any equipment in the flood plain below Victoria are
flooded. The campground near Tivoli below Highway 35 and residences
just above Highway 35 are flooded.



Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:


                      fld latest forecast 6 am lst
location stg stg day time Thu Fri Sat sun Mon

Guadalupe River
Victoria 21 21.8 Wed 08 am 14.2 10.3 8.8 8.2 7.9
Bloomington 20 26.7 Wed 08 am 26.6 26.4 25.0 21.2 15.4

855 am CST Wed Nov 25 2009

The Flood Warning continues for
the Guadalupe River at Victoria.
* Until late Wednesday... or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 8:18 am Wednesday the stage was 21.8 feet.
* Minor flooding is occurring and nonflood flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 21.0 feet.
* Forecast... the river will continue to fall to below flood stage by
late Wednesday morning but remain above caution stage for the next
several days.

* At 21.0 feet minor lowland flooding occurs... as the flow exceeds
the left bank into low areas of Riverside Park.