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Flash Flood — Gonzales, TX

Aug 31, 2001

As the showers and thunderstorms continued moving southeastward, they entered Lavaca and DeWitt Counties just after midnight. Falling over soils that remained saturated from the extreme rainfall of the past two days, rain accumulations averaged almost three inches, with amounts over 6 inches in southern Gonzales County, across all but the eastern three-quarters of DeWitt County and the western three-quarters of Lavaca County. Highest amounts were 10 inch totals between Cuero and Hocheim and Sm

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5260994). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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