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Flash Flood — Willacy, TX

Oct 24, 2015

Moisture from Hurricane Patricia, additional lift from the slowly east���moving bands, and the approach of a front/wind shift from the ranchlands combined to produce a two hour period of blinding rains across most of Willacy, with the highest totals once again in the San Perlita���Willamar���Santa Monica area. Radar estimates of 3 to 6 additional inches in about two hours fell over areas inundated just days before. This new rainfall resulted in flash flooding across much of eas

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 605980). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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