Texas Division of Emergency Management Texas State Operations Center

Situation Awareness Brief

Thursday, April 29th, 2021 As of 0900 CST Incidents Reported to the State Operations Center (last 24 hours) Final DATE SUBJECT LOCATION Report (Y/N) 04/28/21 Preliminary Earthquake Report (M2.6) Culberson County Y Informational Products Distributed by the State Operations Center DATE SUBJECT NWS Galveston: Windy Today - Storms moving into the area early 04/28/21 Thursday NWS Fort Worth: UPDATE - Severe Weather/Flooding Continue through 04/28/21 Thursday Morning NWS Austin/ San Antonio: Update: Severe Storms and Locally Heavy 04/28/21 Rainfall Possible Late this Afternoon/Tonight. 04/28/21 West Gulf River Forecast Center: River Update NWS Austin/San Antonio: 4PM 4/28 Update: Watch Issued Until 11 04/28/21 PM Tonight NWS Houston/Galveston: Marginal Risk of Strong Thursday 04/28/21 + Marine Concerns NWS Shreveport, LA: Severe Weather Threat for Today Thursday April 04/29/21 29th, 2021 04/29/21 NWS Houston/Galveston: Weather Update 04/29/21 Daily NWS Threat Brief for Thursday, April 29, 2021 for FEMA Region 6 Weather Forecast

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Breezy north winds will result in some elevated The threat for severe weather remains low today. fire conditions today across the western and northern Panhandles. Hazardous Weather

The severe weather threat remains low overnight Cloudy and cool with scattered to numerous tonight into Friday morning. showers. A rumble of thunder is possible, but severe storms are not expected. The main hazard will be dangerous lightning. Hazardous Weather

Today (Thursday) will be cloudy and cooler with A Watch remains in effect through 4 numerous showers and thunderstorms. The pm this afternoon across the northern half of threat for severe storms will end during the Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma and most morning hours, once a cold front passes through of Southwest Arkansas. the region. However, heavy rainfall and localized flooding will be possible until about midday. Highs today will range from the upper 60s in the west to the upper 70s in the southeast. Hazardous Weather

Scattered showers and storms are forecast today Higher chances of thunderstorms across the across eastern areas and isolated coverage north as a cold front stalls across the area. There across northern area. Cooler today behind a cold is a marginal risk north of Conroe for these front. thunderstorms to become strong to severe. Hazardous Weather

A frontal system approaching will increase It will be mostly cloudy and warm across South thunderstorms chances from northwest to Texas today. Isolated to scattered showers and southeast. North of the front, winds will thunderstorms will be possible ahead and along a generally shift east and calm to near 5 mph, cold front. Rain chances will diminish from west while south of the front winds will be up to 10 to east this afternoon. Highs will range from the mph. upper 70s to lower 90s. Hazardous Weather

A Coastal Flood Advisory is in effect until 10 AM Rain and storms chances will increase across the today. Minor is likely during the area overnight in response to an approaching time of high tide, and water could reach the upper level disturbance. Otherwise, expect dunes and make some beach access roads mostly cloudy to cloudy skies and lows in the impassable. A High risk of rip currents is also in upper 60s to low 70s. effect across area beaches. Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Coastal Flood Aransas, Calhoun, Jefferson, Kleberg, Nueces and 04/28/21 Advisory Orange Counties Sabine River Near Mineola Affecting Smith and Wood Counties; Cowleech Fork River at Greenville 04/28/21 Affecting Hunt County; South Fork Sabine River Near Quinlan for Hunt County, the Sulphur River near Talco in Titus County 04/28/21 Bexar County Bandera, Bexar, Callahan, Medina, Shackelford & 04/28/21 Flood Advisory Taylor Counties Urban & Small 04/28/21 Stream Flood Grayson County Advisory Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Brown, Caldwell, Callahan, Coleman, Coke, Collin, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Delta, Eastland, Edwards, Erath, Frio, Gillespie, Glasscock, Guadalupe, Severe 04/28/21 Haskell, Hays, Hopkins, Howard, Kendall, Kerr, Warning Kinney, Lamar, Maverick, McCulloch, Medina, Mills, Mitchell, Parker, Real, Runnels, San Saba, Stonewall, Tarrant, Taylor, Throckmorton, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wilson & Zavala Counties Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Frio, 04/28/21 Guadalupe, Hays, Medina, Tarrant, Uvalde, Zavala Counties Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Jack, Lamar, Montague, Parker, 04/28/21 Flood Watch Palo Pinto, Rockwall, Stephens, Tarrant, Wise & Young Counties Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Dewitt, Dimmit, Eastland, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Fayette, Franklin, Frio, Gillespie, Grayson, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hays, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Irion, Jack, Johnson, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, 04/28/21 Kimble, Kinney, Lamar, Lavaca, Lee, Llano, Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, Medina, Menard, Mills, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rains, Real, Red River, Rockwall, Runnels, San Saba, Schleicher, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Sutton, Tarrant, Taylor, Titus, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Wood, Young & Zavala Counties Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Callahan, Coleman, Severe Thunderstorm 04/29/21 Frio, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde, Wilson, Zavala Warning Counties Sister Grove Creek in Grayson County; Rabbit Creek at Kilgore in Gregg County; Neches River 04/29/21 Flood Warning Affecting Anderson, Cherokee and Houston Counties; Ellis and Navarro Counties Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Marion, Morris, 04/29/21 Tornado Watch Rains, Red River, Smith, Titus, Upshur, Van Zandt & Wood Counties Flood Advisory for Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Medina & Uvalde 04/29/21 Poor Drainage Areas Counties 04/29/21 Flash Flood Warning Ellis and Johnson Counties 04/29/21 Camp, Cass, Morris, Upshur & Wood Counties 04/29/21 Tornado Warning Medina County Bandera, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Kendall & Kerr 04/29/21 Flood Advisory Counties Urban and Small Stream Flood 04/29/21 Dallas County Advisory for Poor Drainage Areas Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued Coastal Flood 04/29/21 Jefferson & Orange Counties Advisory Urban & Small 04/29/21 Stream Flood Bowie & Red River Counties Advisory Flood Advisory for 04/29/21 Ellis County Poor Drainage Areas Fire Danger Forecast Burn Ban Keetch-Byram Drought Index Fire Weather Warnings/Watches/Statements DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Grassland Fire Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, 04/29/21 Danger Statement Potter, Randall, Roberts and Sherman Counties; Palo Duro Canyon, Fire Activity (*Last 24 Hours) Reports of 219 (+2) fires and 36,984 (+20) acres have been destroyed this year. There are 84 (no change) counties with burn bans. The Keetch–Byram Drought Index list 132 (+1) counties with an average over 400. Training DATES TITLE COURSE LOCATION NFPA 1072 HazMat Technician (Pro- 04/26/21 04/30/21 H-501 Fort Worth Board Certification) NFPA 1006 Trench Rescue (Non- 04/26/21 04/30/21 H-306 Conroe Certification) Community Emergency Response 04/26/21 05/12/21 G-317 Buda Team (CERT) Course 04/27/21 04/29/21 Local Mitigation Planning Workshop V-318 Virtual Instructional Presentation and 04/27/21 4/29/21 V-141 Virtual Evaluation Skills Intermediate Incident Command 04/28/21 04/30/21 G-300 San Antonio System for Expanding Incidents Advanced Incident Command 04/29/21 04/30/21 System, Command and General G-400 San Antonio Staff Advanced Incident Command 04/29/21 04/30/21 System, Command and General G-400 Austin Staff Exercises DATE(S) AGENCY/LOCATION EXERCISE 04/27/21 05/01/21 USCG 8D/Corpus Christi D8 Natural Disaster Statewide Significant Events

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