Nov 13, 1998
Light rain continued through much of Friday afternoon and evening in the area from Cuero to Hallettsville to LaGrange and Gonzales. Soils were already saturated from the heavy rainfall Thursday morning and early Friday morning. Thunderstorms with heavy rainfall began to reform in the Yorktown to Cuero area around 9 pm CST Friday evening and drifted slowly northward. As a result, Fayette, Lavaca, Gonzales and DeWitt Counties received general 1 to 2 inches of additional rain with isolated total
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5669932). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in De Witt County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.