Rain alerts and searches RTVE gives the next outlook

Oct 3–4

RTVE reports orange rain warnings in six autonomous communities, afternoon hail in Talavera de la Reina and persistent Catalan rain, with an ES-Alert sent to several Tarragona districts. Searches continue for an adult whom two witnesses saw fall into a stream and a child with autism reported missing in Granollers; no flood cause for the child's disappearance is established. In the separate weather return, López forecasts a northern front with potentially heavy Cantabrian and Upper Ebro rain, northeastern-mainland and Balearic afternoon storms, and lower maximum temperatures the next day. These are forecasts, not observed October 7 impacts.

On October 3, RTVE reports intense rain and street flooding in Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with red warnings on the Barcelona coast and part of Girona's coast. María Ríos reports a Generalitat ES-Alert, restrictions, early shop closure, a planned midnight metro shutdown, suspended Rodalies services, airport delays and cancellations, and postponed sporting and cultural events. RTVE warns of more intense rain overnight and a possible Mediterranean mini-hurricane, while the wider coast is under an orange warning. García Valcárcel forecasts the extension of red warnings to inland Barcelona and Girona the next day and urges caution through Sunday morning. Existing flooding and announced restrictions are established by the source; the overnight totals, warning expansion and cyclone hazard remain prospective. DD India's October 4 weather package recalls the Saturday Catalonia alerts and overnight road rescues and attributes two reported deaths and one missing person to Spanish authorities. Its casualty account is not supplied by the earlier RTVE passages and is retained as an attributed update rather than an independently reconciled local toll. It does not establish the warned-of mini-hurricane's landfall. Oman TV's October 4 update reports two dead and one missing after the preceding day's Catalonia rain, alongside flooded homes and submerged cars near Barcelona, flight disruption and suspended local trains. It relays a regional red alert, advice to stay home and the risk of further rain. This later toll is attributed to Oman TV's report; the earlier RTVE overnight rainfall and cyclone warnings remain forecasts, not retrospectively established observations. RTVE's October 4 follow-up reports two deaths and a missing-person search in Pineda de Mar. Sangermán says no missing-person complaint has been filed, but two sightings suggest a young man was swept away; the search pauses around 19:30 until Monday morning. She describes the Tordera victim as 75 and the Montornès del Vallès death as a reported garage drowning. The final northern Girona travel restrictions end at 21:00 and all red warnings are lifted. Ríos reports gradual commuter recovery, continuing flood/mud/tree obstructions, high-speed services resuming at midday with delays and up to 400 cancelled airport flights. The cleanup package reports more than 210 litres per square metre in Barcelona in less than a day, up to 8,000 emergency calls and at least nine schools closed Monday. These reported consequences are distinct from the prior day's forecasts. García Valcárcel then forecasts renewed heavy Catalan coastal/pre-coastal rain overnight and early Monday; no future rainfall or completed missing-person recovery is established. Tagesschau's October 4 follow-up reports at least two dead and one missing in Catalonia, more than 200 litres per square metre overnight, flooded homes and roads around Barcelona and nearby northern areas, a threatened Besòs overflow, firefighter rescues and continuing traffic disruption. It carries an unnamed resident's evacuation testimony and AEMET meteorologist Ramón Pascual Berghaenel's attributed warm-sea/global-warming explanation. Böker says the storm is subsiding in most affected places while authorities continue to urge vigilance. This is observed aftermath of the same October 3 Catalonia flooding, not proof that RTVE's earlier cyclone hazard or every forecast total occurred. The Catalan toll does not include other Spanish flood deaths. The October 3–4 range bounds the observed flooding and immediate aftermath described in these broadcasts; it does not establish final storm resolution, every predicted rainfall total or a medicane landfall. Bombers de la Generalitat footage published by 3CatInfo on October 4 adds direct visual evidence of the same flood episode: muddy river overflow inundates surrounding land beside roads and buildings, while a closer sequence shows debris, a fast-flowing channel and a visibly undercut road edge beside an emergency vehicle. The silent assembly supplies no casualty count, rainfall measurement or confirmation of the earlier cyclone forecast. Bombers' separate nighttime operational release adds three views of fast muddy stream flows, with visible rain in the final view. The agency identifies the inspected Maresme channels as the Mata, Llavaneres and Sant Simó. Published October 4 during the same overnight October 3–4 flood episode, this silent visual account supplies no measured rainfall, discharge, individual rescue outcome or exact shot-by-shot camera location/time. Tagesthemen's October 4 brief reports severe flooding in northern Spain, particularly around Barcelona, with inundated roads and homes, uprooted trees and overflowing rivers. It reports at least three deaths and attributes increased extreme-rain likelihood to climate change and a strongly warmed Mediterranean. It does not identify the victims or allocate all three deaths specifically to Catalonia. Retain this as Tagesthemen's geographically broader casualty claim alongside the provisional Catalan two-dead/one-missing reports; the broadcasts do not reconcile the difference. RTVE's October 6 weather bulletin says the search continues for the adult whom two witnesses saw fall into a stream. This is a later search update to the earlier two-sighting Pineda account, not a recovered person or a revised flood-date range. The same bulletin separately mentions a child with autism reported missing in Granollers; it does not establish a flood cause for that disappearance, and that child is excluded from this event's passage coverage. The newly issued Tarragona ES-Alert is a separate warning occurrence.