Nov 2, 2016
Rich moisture with dewpoints in the 60s streamed north ahead of a cold front this afternoon. Around 1400 CST, scattered multicell thunderstorms developed from the southwest South Plains northeast through the far southeast Panhandle and moved east into the Rolling Plains through the late evening. Some of these storms produced destructive wind gusts, hail as large as golf ball size, and two instances of flooding from torrential downpours of nearly one half inch in just five minutes. The most dest
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 659080). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Crosby County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.