Plum Creek at Lockhart

1. 23.00 ftDisastrous widespread flooding is over a mile wide from the headwaters to the Guadalupe River. Businessesflood in Uhland. Lowest homes in the flood plain are inundated over the length of Plum Creek. Highway 183 near Lockhart floods extensively.
2. 22.00 ftThe flow is nearly a mile wide, flooding Highway 183 in the left flood plain. There is widespread damage to crops. Livestock are isolated and drowned in the pastureland. Primary and secondary roads and bridges are severely flooded. Oil tank batteries and pump jacks are flooded. Lower homes in the flood plain are flooded.
3. 21.00 ftFlow is above the level of the 20.89 feet Nov 24, 1989 flood. Extensive damage to crops, livestock, and lower homes in the flood plain. Many primary and secondary roads and bridges are flooded and closed.
4. 19.00 ftMajor flooding causes extensive crop and pastureland flooding, isolating and potentially drowning livestock, and flooding secondary and primary roads, low bridges, and lowest homes in the flood plain.
5. 15.00 ftModerate lowland flooding merges with a secondary channel in the left flood plain, becoming 1/2 mile wide.
6. 14.00 ftMinor lowland flooding. Flooding reaches the lowest areas of the flood plain.
7. 12.00 ftBANKFULL.

Most recent crests

• October 14, 2021: 17.39 ft
• May 12, 2020: 17.93 ft
• May 4, 2019: 16.24 ft
• October 30, 2015: 22.13 ft
• May 26, 2015: 19.58 ft
• May 18, 2015: 17.20 ft
• January 13, 2007: 16.32 ft
• October 18, 1998: 23.09 ft
• June 7, 1997: 16.19 ft
• March 13, 1995: 16.89 ft

• DownstreamPlum Creek at Luling
• San Marcos River at Martindale
• Blanco River at San Marcos
• Blanco River at Kyle
• Onion Creek at Buda
• San Marcos River at San Marcos
• Onion Creek at Twin Creeks near Manchaca
• Blanco River at at Halifax Ranch near Kyle

Forecasts by the West Gulf River Forecast Center. Graphical forecasts are not available during times of high water, forecast crest information can be found in the local WFO web page.

Stage, flood stages, impacts and crest history from NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service. Streamflow and the daily record from the U.S. Geological Survey.