True. Gilbert is just the first one I remember.

Edit: Dolly and the floods in 91 are hands down the worst I've seen in Harlingen. I usually judge the amount of water by how much the arroyo rises and how close it is to the rail bridge. My grandparents say that Beulah was still the worst.

There are fish swimming in the street in Harlingen. Upper Valley getting hit hard this morning

0.15" at my place in Coryell County. We would gladly take a lot of that rain that is hammering yall further south.

radar indicated 4-6 inches at my house in Sharyland since 6am.........and its worse further west into Mission/La Joya

Lake in front of my house and water is halfway up the driveway

Still raining

Of course I am not there, but pics I am getting show it real bad out west with lots of road closures. Supposed to fly back in tomorrow.

This is only a preview, a small trailer, of what it is going to be like if another Beulah comes through. One of the forecasts I am seeing says more rain later this PM. Uggh.

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0.15" at my place in Coryell County. We would gladly take a lot of that rain that is hammering yall further south.

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Roughly 4 miles away I got 0.25" at my house

I lived through Beulah and it was actually a somewhat quick moving storm once it hit. The Harlingen flooding came when a diversion levee way upstream failed and the upper/mid Valley flood water dumped into the arroyo. That water had almost nowhere to go as it was trapped between a levee and some irrigation canals.

NWS Radar Indicated Rainfall



Now shows 14 inches total. Most of that in the last 12 hours. Probably 10" since midnight

My house is 2 miles from my office. There's 4 diff ways to get there.
None of them are passable in my Ram 1500

Master drains (20-25 ft deep and 150 ft across) built post-beulah are all full and now overflowing

Thats never happened in the 30 years since they were built in this part of the valley

Still raining

We have been getting slammed in Mission since 6:30 this morning... no telling how much has fallen, but my neighbor who's been here since '88 has not seen anything like it before...

I live in McAllen and work in Mission. The amount of rain that has fallen in the past 1-2 days is more than 15 inches.

1.5" - between Tilden and Three Rivers. That should be enough to keep my trees alive for a few weeks until I can get back down there.

So many friends homes have been flooded. Thankfully my folks place is on a hill.

Keep your powder dry OB valley rats!

Noon today was 1/4" from getting inside the house. Literally.

5 hrs later:

BurrOak said:

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0.15" at my place in Coryell County. We would gladly take a lot of that rain that is hammering yall further south.

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Same amount west of Waco.

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BurrOak said:

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0.15" at my place in Coryell County. We would gladly take a lot of that rain that is hammering yall further south.

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Same amount west of Waco.

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My Sprinkler is running tomorrow.

When did you move back? It thought you were in Alaska or some such far-flung paradise.

Highland lakes needs some of that. Need to keep the riff raff off of LBJ the rest of the summer and next year.

Did your crops and land get hammered? Any big issues for you?

Willacy was pretty much droughted out already - so this is just chapter 6 of the 2018 goat rope. I feel for the irrigated cotton in mid valley. This can't be good there.

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When did you move back? It thought you were in Alaska or some such far-flung paradise.

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Couple of years ago - oil collapse happened and we decided to move back.

I know it's not Texas but watching this storm develop is cool as hell

Any of our resident weather experts have an outlook for July? I'm specifically concerned with the Hill country area.

It appears to be just a normal hot, dry summer but was wondering if any sign of relief is projected... aside from a hurricane, unless it's from the pacific and is just bringing moisture.

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Any of our resident weather experts have an outlook for July?

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ttha_aggie_09 said:

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Any of our resident weather experts have an outlook for July? I'm specifically concerned with the Hill country area.

It appears to be just a normal hot, dry summer but was wondering if any sign of relief is projected... aside from a hurricane, unless it's from the pacific and is just bringing moisture.

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I second this question

Third!

We were supposed to get a bunch of rain last week, and got very little.

The hell with you thermal cap!

Man, what did I do to anger the gods in West Fort Worth...

I'll take an inch in Uvalde County but would prefer that model shift west and add 2-3".

Thanks for posting!

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Man, what did I do to anger the gods in West Fort Worth...

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Sorry about your grass but I'm hoping for a rain free week in DFW next week with carpe milkum.

Don't worry, we have a 20% chance on the 4th and nothing the rest of the week.

I'm cursed.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DroughtSummary.aspx

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Much of coastal Texas was inundated by heavy tropical moisture. Reports of 2 to 5 inches of rain were common, with 5 to 10 inches falling in the southern areas. An automated station near Weslaco Airport recorded 8.39 inches of rain in just 2 and a half hours. According to the Texas mesonet, Weslaco received 9 inches of rain. The average total precipitation is 6.73 inches there for the entire summer (June through August). The rains eliminated dryness on the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) drought indictor out to 6 months back in South Texas. The rains led to widespread 1 to 2 category reductions along the coast, with D1-D2 shrinking down to D0 (Abnormally Dry) or to no drought or abnormal dryness ("D-Nothing").

Meanwhile, several mesoscale thunderstorm complexes over multiple days moved through Oklahoma and clipped the northern Texas panhandle, with their remnants making it into parts of Arkansas, while other thunderstorm systems brought rain to parts of northern Mississippi and southern Tennessee. These areas received 2 inches or more of rain for the week, with parts of Oklahoma recording over 5 inches. The D4 in western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle was eliminated, improvement occurred in the northern Texas panhandle, and D0-D3 shrank across much of Oklahoma, with some 2-category reductions. Elsewhere in Texas, the week was dry with multi-month precipitation deficits mounting, so D0-D3 expanded across the central half of the state. June 25 USDA statistics indicated that 41% of pastures and rangeland were in poor to very poor condition in Texas. The rains mostly missed northeast Oklahoma, where D1 expanded. D0-D2 expanded in parts of Louisiana, D0-D1 expanded in Mississippi, and there was expansion of drought and abnormal dryness and some contraction, as well, in Arkansas. D0 was added to northern Tennessee, with a little spillage into parts of southern Kentucky, where precipitation deficits have been mounting over the last 3 months.

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Those numbers for TOTALS in South Texas are seriously flawed

With all due respect to whoever created them i submit the following

1. Over 14" in 9 hours in several areas of Hidalgo County

2. NWS on its own site showed numbers > what im saying

3. The East to West master storm drain was full for > 96 hrs (never happened even for a hurricane)

4. 11 days later water is still draining thru the system

I guarantee (Fwiw) that local reports of 20-25" in 28 hrs is more accurate

I'm really hoping the forecast for Seguin holds and we get a little bit of rain this week