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Do you see an intrinsic challenge to communicate and act on flash flood watches and warnings? There are probably well-defined responses for hurricane alerts (mandatory evacuations). I suspect it’s much harder for flash floods. Evacuate everyone in the watch area? Knock doors and warn them?
July 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Do you see an intrinsic challenge to communicate and act on flash flood watches and warnings? There are probably well-defined responses for hurricane alerts (mandatory evacuations). I suspect it’s much harder for flash floods. Evacuate everyone in the watch area? Knock doors and warn them?
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All of this is to say: I think it's simply untrue to say this is a story about how the NWS somehow made a bad prediction or did not issue timely warnings in this case--that's just demonstrably untrue. The more proximal causes of the tragedy are otherwise. But...
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
All of this is to say: I think it's simply untrue to say this is a story about how the NWS somehow made a bad prediction or did not issue timely warnings in this case--that's just demonstrably untrue. The more proximal causes of the tragedy are otherwise. But...
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One thing I do know is that this part of TX Hill Country is (in)famous for sudden and violent flood risk; that's an intrinsic product of being a hilly region with "flashy" watersheds subject to occasional but very extreme precipitation events arising from bathtub-warm Gulf.
July 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One thing I do know is that this part of TX Hill Country is (in)famous for sudden and violent flood risk; that's an intrinsic product of being a hilly region with "flashy" watersheds subject to occasional but very extreme precipitation events arising from bathtub-warm Gulf.
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Flood Watch issued yesterday at 1:18 pm.
WPC had mesoscale discussions throughout the event.
NWS issues Flash Flood Warning at 1:14 am.
NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency at 4:03 am.
NWS was on the ball.
The challenge is always getting the warning the last mile and getting people to respond.
WPC had mesoscale discussions throughout the event.
NWS issues Flash Flood Warning at 1:14 am.
NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency at 4:03 am.
NWS was on the ball.
The challenge is always getting the warning the last mile and getting people to respond.
Everyone making comments about DOGE and FEMA as it relates to the Texas flooding is insulting to the NWS employees working this event that were well aware of how bad this was becoming. Plenty of opportunities to use those arguments elsewhere.
July 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.
July 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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