![]() 23, 1974.įriday's rainfall was also greater than any previous 15-day period on record for the airport site. The previous one-day record at Bergstrom was 8.70 inches on Nov. ![]() This shattered the all-time daily rainfall record for the Bergstrom site, including its years as Bergstrom Air Force Base, since it began keeping weather records in 1942. The official daily rainfall total on Friday for Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) was 14.99 inches, according to the San Antonio National Weather Service office. Through Monday night, the flow of moisture continued as the frontal boundary slide east across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.Īside from the heavy rain and flash flooding threats, there was also a few isolated severe thunderstorms, thanks in part to some modest instability and favorable low level wind fields. ![]() With bands of rain and thunderstorms streaming along the front, some areas near the front picked up locally heavy rainfall. ( MORE: Latest on Deadly Flooding in South) Gulf Moisture Feeds Heavy Rain ThreatĪ plume of moisture feed a storm system over the Deep South with a slow-moving frontal boundary as the focus for much of the rain. Flash floods in central and southeast Texas have killed at least four people since Friday and closed countless roads and flooded homes. As it moves out of areas soaked by remnants of Hurricane Patricia a week ago and into areas where the soil is drier, the flood threat will diminish somewhat.Īs much as 13 inches of rain in upper coastal Texas spawned major flash flooding across Houston and nearby communities Saturday. Heavy rain that caused major flash flooding across parts of Texas continues to move east across the Gulf Coast and Southeast states.
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