Jasper County Judge Mark Allen has issued a Disaster Declaration for Jasper County following today's storms

DECLARATION OF DISASTER

WHEREAS, the County of Jasper, Texas, on the __4th__ day of March, 2025, was in

in the path of a major weather event described in reports issued by the United States National

Weather Service, the Texas State Operations Center and local professional meteorologists,

potentially causing widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life and property resulting

from countywide conditions created by torrential rainfall, major flooding with high speed

winds and tornadic activity over an excessive period of time, affecting Jasper County by

causing flooding and wind damage in residential and commercial areas, as well as major

infrastructure damage preventing access to, or the safe passage on, many roadways, as well as

the potential for long term countywide electrical power and utility outages. These conditions

may be exacerbated by the risk of dead trees and large limbs falling that were killed in the

massive drought die-off in 2023. Such conditions have created an imminent public safety

hazard.

WHEREAS, the County Judge of Jasper County, Texas, has determined, based upon

reports issued by the National Weather Service, the Texas State Operations Center, local

professional meteorologists, and local emergency response agencies responding to widespread

damage in local Jasper County communities that extraordinary measures must be taken to

protect life, as well as to protect or rehabilitate property, and are necessary and hereby ordered.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED BY THE COUNTY JUDGE OF JASPER

COUNTY, TEXAS:

I. That a local state of disaster is hereby declared for Jasper County, Texas, pursuant

to Section 418.108(a) of the Texas Government Code.

II. Pursuant to Section 418.108(b) of the Texas Government Code, the state of disaster

shall continue for a period of not more than seven days from the date of this

declaration unless continued or renewed by the Commissioners Court of Jasper

County, Texas.

III. Pursuant to Section 418.108(c) of the Texas Government Code, this declaration of

a local disaster shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed

promptly with the County Clerk.

IV. Pursuant to Section 418.108(d) of the Texas Government Code, this declaration of

a local state of disaster activates the Jasper County Emergency Management Plan.

ORDERED this __4th__ day of March, 2025.

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Mark W. Allen, County Judge

Jasper County, Texas