Mar 9, 2016
A slow moving upper level low along with plentiful moisture and a strong low level jet produced strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall over portions of South Texas during the late evening of March 8th and early morning hours of March 9th. Severe thunderstorms impacted the coastal counties of South Texas around daybreak, with the storms producing damaging straight-line winds. Persistent very heavy rainfall produced flash flooding over the southern Coastal Bend where six or more inches
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 624917). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Kleberg County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.