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 The region affected by catastrophic flooding in Central Texas typically averages 28 to 32 inches of rain in a year. Instead, four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
07/05/25 11:23 AM
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Meteorologists knew there was some risk of overnight flooding. Then four months of rainfall came down in only four hours.
By Scott Dance, Ben Noll and Matthew Cappucci
Meteorologists had cautioned there was potential for flooding across Central Texas in the overnight hours late Thursday and early Friday morning. But there was little indication of just how torrential and unrelenting the downpours would become in the predawn hours, killing at least 27 people, many of them children at camp.
Radar and precipitation data and National Weather Service warnings show the floods were the result of extraordinary atmospheric conditions that sent intense plumes of Gulf of Mexico moisture into parts of Texas long known to be vulnerable to flash flooding, when bursts of heavy rain cause water to rise rapidly.
And unlike a typical summer thunderstorm that can cause quick flooding, this system formed in a way that allowed it to stall, creating deluges that repeatedly poured several inches of rain on the same areas within a matter of hours.
“The flooding damage is catastrophic,” Kerrville Police Officer Jonathan Lamb told The Washington Post. “It’s the worst flood that we’ve ever seen.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/04/texas-flooding-extreme-rains/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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