Victoria, Texas

... Flood Warning extended until Sunday morning... the Flood Warning
continues for the Guadalupe River near Bloomington.
* Until Sunday morning... or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 9:00 am Tuesday the stage was 26.6 feet.
* Moderate flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
* Forecast... the river will continue rising to near 27 feet by
tomorrow evening and remain above flood stage into the weekend.

* At 27.5 feet major flooding occurs... isolating livestock. The
river floods equipment and livestock in the flood plain and can flood
residences downstream near Tivoli. Highway 35 east of Tivoli floods.



Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:


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

Guadalupe River
Victoria 21 29.0 Tue 09 am 28.6 20.2 10.8 8.8 8.0
Bloomington 20 26.6 Tue 09 am 27.3 27.4 26.0 21.5 17.8

939 am CST Tue Nov 24 2009

... Flood Warning extended until Thursday evening... the Flood Warning continues for the Guadalupe River at Victoria.
* Until Thursday evening... or until the warning is cancelled.
* At 9:17 am Tuesday the stage was 29.0 feet.
* Moderate flooding is occurring.
* Flood stage is 21.0 feet.
* Forecast... the river will continue rising to near 29 feet today
but remain above flood stage for the next few days.

* At 29.0 feet water surrounds the lowest homes in The Greens
addition subdivision. Parts of the zoo and Golf course and nearly
all of Riverside Park flood. Hundreds of livestock are cut off and
may drown in the flood plain below Cuero. A large residential area
downstream... just above Highway 35 is cut off... and the flow
approaches a fishing Camp just below Highway 35.