Victoria
Flood Warning Statement as of 8:14 PM CST on November 20, 2009
The Flood Warning continues for
the Guadalupe River near Bloomington.
* From Saturday evening until further notice... or until the warning
is cancelled.
* At 7:00 PM Friday the stage was 14.0 feet.
* Moderate flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
* Forecast... rise above flood stage by late Saturday evening and
continue to rise to near 26.2 feet by Wednesday morning.
* At 26.0 feet irrigation and oil well pumps... tank batteries... and
equipment in the lower flood plain below Victoria flood. Livestock
are cut off... may have to be fed by boat... and could drown. Homes
downstream above Highway 35 on the left bank are cut off.
Below are the latest river stages and stage forecasts:
fld latest forecast 6 am lst
location stg stg day time Sat sun Mon Tue Wed
Guadalupe River
Victoria 21 8.9 Fri 07 PM 9.7 18.3 23.2 24.1 18.1
Bloomington 20 14.0 Fri 07 PM 15.5 21.3 24.9 26.0 26.2
... Flood Warning extended until Wednesday afternoon... the Flood
Warning continues for
the Guadalupe River at Victoria.
* From Sunday evening to Wednesday afternoon... or until the warning
is cancelled.
* At 7:15 PM Friday the stage was 8.9 feet.
* Minor flooding is forecast.
* Flood stage is 21.0 feet.
* Forecast... rise above flood stage by Sunday evening and continue to
rise to near 24.5 feet by early Tuesday morning. The river will
fall below flood stage by Tuesday evening.
* At 26.5 feet grover's Bend is under water. Water reaches mccright
drive behind rippamonti field.
Record Report Statement as of 03:38 PM CST on November 20, 2009
... Record daily maximum rainfall set at Corpus Christi as of 300 PM...
as of 300 PM... a record rainfall of 1.66 inch(es) was set at Corpus
Christi today. This breaks the old record of 1.2 set in 1931.
Public Information Statement Statement as of 4:00 PM CDT on November 20, 2009
Heavy rain developed across the coastal Bend early Thursday evening.
The rain spread across most of the region Thursday night and Friday
morning. Rainfall was locally very heavy across the northern coastal
Bend. The following are rainfall reports during the past 24 hours.
Many reports will not reflect the final storm total at this time.
Precipitation totals:
Rockport (7 am) 10.06 inches
Rockport Airport 9.94
Rockport 2 north (8 am) 9.29
Aransas Pass 8.42
Matagorda Island 7.20
Bee County (8 am) 6.80
Woodsboro (7 am) 4.41
Refugio (8 am) 4.24
Portland (7 am) 4.20
Ingleside 4.08
Port Aransas (2 pm) 4.00
Austwell (9 am) 3.99
Port Aransas 3.96
Guadalupe Victoria 3.60
Corpus Christi naval 3.56
Mathis (6 am) 3.50
Beeville (7 am) 2.93
Flour Bluff (8 am) 2.89
McCampbell 2.83
Corpus Christi Oso Bay (7 am)2.70
Schroeder 2.39
Goliad 2.18
Victoria Airport 2.15
Corpus Christi Airport 1.83
George West 1.75
Cotulla 1.53
Laredo 0.84
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