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Flood — Castro, TX

Oct 8, 2018

Early morning showers and thunderstorms across much of the South Plains were followed by additional rounds of heavy rainfall through midday. The latter rounds of rain were focused near and just east of the Interstate 27 and US Highway 87 corridor where as much as two inches of rain fell on top of soils that were already saturated from heavy rains that fell just three days earlier. The result was widespread flooding of poor drainage areas over much of the South Plains, including a few temporary

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 778529). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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