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Hazardous Weather Hazardous Weather Texas Division of Emergency Management Texas State Operations Center Situation Awareness Brief Wednesday, May 26th, 2021 As of 0900 CST Tropical Weather Awareness Incidents Reported to the State Operations Center (last 24 hours) Final DATE SUBJECT LOCATION Report (Y/N) 05/25/21 PLB Incident 21I0227 Opened Harris County N 05/25/21 PLB Incident 21I0227 Closed Harris County Y Informational Products Distributed by the State Operations Center DATE SUBJECT 05/25/21 NWS Amarillo: Severe Weather Briefing - May 25th, 2021 NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center: Heavy Rain Threat 05/25/21 Continues...Possible Small Break This Week NWS Houston/Galveston: Update Flash Flood Watch Expanded to Northern 05/25/21 Counties Today 05/25/21 NWS Norman OK: Severe Weather Outlook NWS Austin/San Antonio: Public Information Statement - NWS Damage 05/26/21 Survey for 05/18/21 Tornado Event NWS San Angelo: Public Information Statement - NWS Damage Survey for 05/26/21 the 05/17/21 Sterling County Tornado Informational Products Distributed by the State Operations Center DATE SUBJECT 05/25/21 NWS Amarillo: Severe Weather Briefing - May 25th, 2021 NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center: Heavy Rain Threat 05/25/21 Continues...Possible Small Break This Week NWS Houston/Galveston: Update Flash Flood Watch Expanded to Northern 05/25/21 Counties Today 05/25/21 NWS Norman OK: Severe Weather Outlook NWS Austin/San Antonio: Public Information Statement - NWS Damage 05/26/21 Survey for 05/18/21 Tornado Event NWS San Angelo: Public Information Statement - NWS Damage Survey for 05/26/21 the 05/17/21 Sterling County Tornado 05/26/21 Daily NWS Threat Brief for Wednesday, May 26, 2021 for FEMA Region 6 Weather Forecast Highs Lows Weather Forecast Wind Speeds Gusts Hazardous Weather Hazardous Weather Thunderstorms may develop over the central and Some severe thunderstorms will be possible after eastern Panhandles in the mid to late afternoon. midnight, mainly for the north to northeastern These storms will be capable of producing large portions of the combined Panhandles. Hail will be hail and damaging winds. The overall tornado the main threat, with wind gusts up to 60 mph threat is low, but an isolated tornado cannot be still possible. ruled out. Hazardous Weather Isolated severe thunderstorms may develop Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms will along the dryline late this afternoon. Otherwise, be possible through the evening hours working partly cloudy skies and highs around 90 degrees west to east across the I-27 corridor. Otherwise, are expected. expect partly cloudy skies and lows mainly in the 60s. Hazardous Weather A slight risk is in effect for possible severe Today's rain chances will likely remain confined weather along a dryline today and Thursday. to areas east of I- 35, where the better moisture will reside. Afternoon pop-up showers and storms should remain fairly isolated in nature. If a storm does develop, the main threats will be lightning and gusty winds. High temperatures today will be in the mid 80s. Hazardous Weather Very warm today with the majority of the region Isolated showers and thunderstorms are remaining rain free. Isolated showers and expected this evening across most of south thunderstorms are expected across the far central Texas. Brief moderate to heavy rainfall southeastern counties. Highs range from the mid along with occasional lightning strikes are 80s in the Hill Country to the mid 90s along the possible. Most of the activity will likely decrease Rio Grande. after midnight with the loss of daytime heating. It will be warm again with overnight lows in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Hazardous Weather Forecast for today High pressure over the gulf will keep skies partly sunny with a chance of some scattered rain and thunderstorms. Daytime high temps will push into the upper 80s for those inland and into the low 80s for the coastline. South to southeast winds 5 to 10 MPH. Hazardous Weather A Coastal Flood Advisory remains in effect today Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms for the barrier islands, bays, and shores along possible along the coast. Mostly cloudy the intracoastal waterways of the Middle Texas conditions inland with highs in the mid to upper coast, for up to 1 ft of water inundation. Poor 90's for Deep South Texas today. driving conditions are expected as water reaches the dunes, mainly near times of high tide. Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION 05/25/21 Flash Flood Warning Borden, Pecos, Scurry and Taylor Counties Colorado and Pecos Counties; Big Cypress Bayou affecting Cass, Harrison, and Marion Counties; Clear Fork Trinity River affecting Parker County; Cowleech Fork Sabine River affecting Hunt County; East Fork Angelina River affecting 05/25/21 Flood Warning Nacogdoches and Rusk Counties; East Fork Trinity River affecting Collin County; Guadalupe River affecting DeWitt County; Rabbit Creek affecting Gregg County; Sabine River affecting Panola and Shelby Counties; Spring Creek affecting Harris County; Trinity River affecting Dallas County Angelina, Austin, Borden, Cameron, Cherokee, Colorado, Coke, Ector, Grimes, Harris, Howard, 05/25/21 Flood Advisory Kent, Midland, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Runnels, Sabine, Scurry, Taylor and Waller Counties Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 05/25/21 Coastal Flood Advisory San Patricio Counties Urban and Small Stream Angelina, Grayson, Nacogdoches, Panola, Parker, 05/25/21 Flood Advisory San Augustine, Shelby and Tarrant Counties Weather Warnings/Advisories Issued DATE WARNING TYPE LOCATION Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane, Crosby, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Ector, Fisher, Garza, Glasscock, Hansford, Harrison, Severe Haskell, Howard, Hutchinson, Jeff Davis, Kent, King, 05/25/21 Thunderstorm Knox, Lipscomb, Martin, McCulloch, Midland, Mitchell, Warning Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Panola, Pecos, Potter, Randall, Runnels, Scurry, Stonewall, Taylor, Terrell, Upton and Ward Counties Severe Collingsworth, Donley, Hardeman and Wilbarger 05/26/21 Thunderstorm Counties Warning Coastal Flood Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and San 05/26/21 Advisory Patricio Counties Flash Flood 05/26/21 Bowie, Cass and Red River Counties Warning Fire Danger Forecast Burn Ban Keetch-Byram Drought Index Fire Activity (*Last 24 Hours) Reports of 226 (no change) fires and 37,555 (no change) acres have been destroyed this year. There are 71 (-1) counties with burn bans. The Keetch–Byram Drought Index list 38 (-2) counties with an average over 400. Training DATES TITLE COURSE LOCATION Intermediate Incident Command 05/20/21 06/03/21 G-300 Bryan System for Expanding Incidents Intermediate Incident Command 05/24/21 05/26/21 G-300 Beaumont System for Expanding Incidents Intermediate Incident Command 05/24/21 05/26/21 G-300 San Antonio System for Expanding Incidents NFPA 1072 HazMat Technician (Pro- 05/24/21 05/28/21 H-501 Southlake Board Certification) NFPA 1006 2013 Edition Confined 05/24/21 05/28/21 Space Rescue Level I & II Training H-503 Pampa (Pro-Board Certification) Instructional Presentation & 05/25/21 05/27/21 G-141 El Paso Evaluation Skills 05/25/21 05/27/21 Local Mitigation Planning Workshop V-318 Virtual Advanced Incident Command 05/26/21 05/27/21 System, Command and General G-400 Wichita Falls Staff Statewide Significant Events DATE(S) LOCATION EVENT 05/23/21 05/30/21 Fort Worth Charles Schwab Challenge.
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