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Flash Flood — Fayette, TX

Nov 14, 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 5669935). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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