Texas Division of Emergency Management Texas State Operations Center

Situation Awareness Brief

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 As of 0900 CST Incidents Reported to the State Operations Center (last 24 hours) Final DATE SUBJECT LOCATION Report (Y/N) 05/01/21 Final Report of the South Rim 4 Fire Brewster County Y Harris County/Fort 05/01/21 PLB Incident 21L3597 Opened N Bend County Harris County/Fort 05/01/21 PLB Incident 21L3597 Closed Y Bend County Informational Products Distributed by the State Operations Center DATE SUBJECT 05/01/21 NWS El Paso: Windy, Dry and Dusty Sunday 050121 NWS Lake Charles: Severe Weather and Excessive Rainfall Event May 1st - 05/01/21 2nd 05/01/21 CLEAR Alert Activation - The Colony PD – Walker 05/02/21 Silver Alert Activation – Bedford PD – Green 05/02/21 Silver Alert Discontinuation - Bedford Police Department - Green 05/02/21 Daily NWS Threat Brief for Saturday, May 2, 2021 for FEMA Region 6 Weather Forecast

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Windy conditions will combine with low relative A has been issued for today humidity, and dry grasses to bring critical fire from 12 pm until 9 pm. Hot, dry, and windy weather conditions to the southwestern and conditions will lead to fire weather concerns. south central Texas Panhandle today. Hazardous Weather

A High Wind Watch is in effect for Guadalupe Pass A very windy day is expected across the Monday evening and night. Borderland. Wind speeds will increase late morning through the afternoon hours. Some locations could eventually see winds gusting as high as 60 mph or more. As a result, a High wind Warning has been issued for the windiest locations. Hazardous Weather

The threat of severe weather will return across A Coastal Advisory is in effect from 8 AM portions of the region today, generally along and to 8 PM today for the Middle Texas Coast. Poor east of the Interstate 49 corridor where a Slight driving conditions are expected as water Risk is highlighted. All modes of severe weather reaches the dunes, mainly near the times of are possible including large hail, damaging winds high tide. Some beach access roads will and isolated tornadoes. In addition, heavy rainfall become impassable. may also pose a localized flash flooding threat. Hazardous Weather

Minor is possible for a few hours at the local beaches this morning due to the combination of seas are tides. Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Sandy Creek near Cordele Affecting Colorado, Jackson and Wharton Counties; Lavaca River Near Edna Affecting Jackson County; Sabine River Near Bon Wier Affecting Newton County; San Bernard River Near Sweeny- Brazoria County; San Bernard River Near East Bernard Affecting Wharton County; San Antonio River Near Elmendorf Affecting Bexar and Wilson Counties; Navidad River at Sublime- Lavaca County; Neches River Near Alto Affecting Cherokee County; Neches River near Neches in 05/01/21 Anderson County; Rabbit Creek near Kilgore Affecting Gregg and Rusk Counties; East Fork San Jacinto River affecting Harris, Liberty and Montgomery Counties; Lake Creek River affecting Montgomery County; Cibolo Creek affecting Wilson County; San Bernard River Near Boling Affecting Brazoria, Fort Bend and Wharton Counties; East Mustang Creek Near Louise Affecting Jackson and Wharton Counties; Caney Creek Near Splendora Affecting Harris and Montgomery Counties; Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Urban and Small Angelina, Cherokee, Kimble, Lavaca, Mason, 05/01/21 Stream Flood Nacogdoches and Rusk Counties Advisory Aransas, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Caldwell, Calhoun, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Jim Wells, Live 05/01/21 Warning Oak, Medina, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Travis, Uvalde, Williamson and Wilson Counties Blowing Dust 05/01/21 El Paso and Hudspeth Counties Advisory Coastal Flood Aransas, Cameron, Calhoun, Jefferson, Kenedy, 05/01/21 Advisory Kleberg, Nueces, Orange and Willacy Counties Bandera, Frio, Gillespie, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Small Stream Flood 05/01/21 Medina, Montgomery, Uvalde, Val Verde, Waller and Advisory Zavala Counties Blanco, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jackson, Matagorda, 05/01/21 Flood Warning and Wharton Counties Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Burnet, Colorado, Comal, Fort Bend, 05/01/21 Flood Advisory Gillespie, Kendall, Kleberg, Kerr, Lavaca, Lee, Llano, Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, San Saba, Victoria, Whartonand Williamson Counties Fire Danger Forecast Burn Ban Keetch-Byram Drought Index Fire Weather Warnings/Watches/Statements DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Floyd, 05/02/21 Red Flag Warning Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Parmer, Swisher, Terry & Yoakum Counties Andrews, Crane, Culberson, Dallam, Dawson, Grassland Fire 05/02/21 Ector, Gaines, Loving, Martin, Midland, Pecos, Danger Statement Terrell, Upton, Ward & Winkler Counties Fire Activity (*Last 24 Hours) Reports of 220 (no change) fires and 37,014 (no change) acres have been destroyed this year. There are 83 (+1) counties with burn bans. The Keetch–Byram Drought Index list 11 (-10) counties with an average over 400. Training DATES TITLE COURSE LOCATION Community Emergency Response 04/26/21 05/12/21 G-317 Buda Team (CERT) Course Statewide Significant Events

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