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Weather Links

Where I live flooding is a concern, both flash flooding, and more so flooding from the Colorado River. This is a simple page containing links to the resources I use to watch the weather in general, plus trying to stay a step ahead of any flooding. This page is easier for me to use rather than book marks, since I can always get to this page from any device.

Local Weather Links

weather.gov 7 day forecast

weather.gov hourly forecast

wunderground local forecast

wunderground Cedar Creek forecast

LCRA Hydromet

wundermap radar

Blitzortung.org Network for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time

LCRA Flood Operations Report

NWS Austin/San Antonio

Garfield,Tx Weather Underground

Garfield,Tx Personal Weather Station

Rain Prediction Links

WPC Days 1-7 QPF Forecasts (24-Hourly Fcsts Days 1-3 + 48-Hour Fcst Days 4-5 and Days 6-7)

WPC int QPF 24 hour 3 day

NWS Weather Prediction Center Rain forecast 1-5 & 1-7 days

NWS WPC 5-Day Total QPF

NWS WPC 7-Day Total QPF

NWS Climate Prediction Center

Other Useful Links

NWS Probability Information for Colorado River at Austin (ACRT2) exceeding River Stage

NWS Probability Information for Onion Creek at 183 (ATIT2) exceeding River Stage

NWS Probability Information for Colorado River at Bastrop (BRTT2) exceeding River Stage

West Gulf River Forecast Center - River Flood Summary

Climate Graphs - Austin Bergstrom Tx

Weather Prediction Center - Short Range Forecasts (Days 1/2-2 1/2) (National)

NWS Weather Prediction Center - Archive of the National Forecast Chart

TexMesonet

USGS Texas Water Dashboard

USGS waterdata

NWS/NOAA Water River Observations Texas, Austin/San Antonio

NWS/NOAA Water River Observations

NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center

Short Range Forecasts (Days ½-2½)

WPC high-resolution medium-range forecast display

Weather.gov/Austin

My Garfield flooding page

Bluebonnet Outages

WUnderground Calendar

SPC High Resolution Ensemble Forecast version 2

NWS Austin/San Antonio Weather Office and Flood Forecasts Map

Real-time 3km Land Information System over Southeast Texas

Real-Time Land Information System

MesoWest SynopticLags API Explore

NWS Daily Hydrometeorological Products

Highway Conditions - Current

ATX Floods Road Closures

ATX Flood Safety

Mansfield Dam Facts/Flood Operations

Hydro-Met Data Report Part 4

NWS - Local Climate Graphs - Austin Bergstrom Tx

Hurricane Links

The Eastern North Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15th through November 30th.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th.

National Hurricane Center

National Hurricane Center - Tropical Cyclone Climatology

Tropical Tidbits

Tropical Tidbits - Current Storms

Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast system (ATCF)

Mike's Weather Page

Weather Underground Hurricane and Tropical Cyclones

Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project Forecast Schedule

NOAA NWS Marine Forecasts

Up river Forecasts

Forecasts in Onion Creek Watershed

Onion Creek can play a big part in contributing water to flooding in my area. In fact, we can flood with very little rain if the Onion Creek watershed gets a lot. In addition to using the LCRA Hydromet, here are some forecast in the Onion Creek watershed I use.

weather.gov

3 Miles ENE Dripping Springs

Hays

4 Miles NNW Manchaca

WUnderground.com

Dripping Springs

Circle C Ranch

Forecasts in North Austin, Walnut and Boggy Creek

Walnut and Boggy Creek both feed into the Colorado after the Austin Colorado river gauge. Any rain in North Austin, North of Austin, Wells Branch area will travel these water ways.

weather.gov

Mc Neil Tx

5 Miles NNE Austin TX

WUnderground.com

Lamplight Village 21 Station

Forecasts in Pflugerville and Manor, Gilleland Creek

weather.gov

Pflugerville TX

3 Miles WNW Manor TX

WUnderground.com

Pflugerville, Travis County ESD No. 2 Central Station Pecan St. - KTXPFLUG119

Harris Branch, Northeast Austin Station

Twitter

These twitter accounts provide information for weather and flooding conditions.


Local to Austin Area.


LCRA

NWS Austin/San Antonio

ATXfloods

State wide. May have a lot of tweets not related to our local area.


USGS TX FloodWatch

National wide.

Colorado River LCRA Gauge near Webberville

This gauge is pretty new. Data starts on December 15th, 2015 13:55 for stage, and flow/CFS shows up on January 1st, 2016 12:10. Somewhere around mid May 2016, they made adjustments to the flow calculation, improving it's accuracy. A few months before on Halloween weekend, the area had one of the worst floods in decades. Not sure if that flood prompted the installation of this gauge, but it may have. The gauge is maintained by LCRA, and this data was downloaded from their site.

This chart shows the gauge up to Nov 3rd, 2019. I've marked the three highest peaks, along with Harvey from 2017 for reference. I haven't flooded during this time, though it's possible some others have.