Drought in Coastal Kenedy, Texas

Drought September 26, 2023 – September 30, 2023 · Coastal Kenedy, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

Beneficial rainfall from Tropical Storm Harold, which tracked through Kenedy County on August 22 and dropped between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall, was all dried up by the end of September. By the 26th, Severe (D2) Drought had covered all of Coastal Kenedy County, courtesy of 10-25% of rainfall in the wettest month of the year, and record to near-record searing heat.

The wider storm

The somewhat wet benefits from Tropical Storm Harold on August 22nd-23rd, 2023, were erased in Willacy and Kenedy County by the end of a record-hot September in these areas, when monthly rainfall averaged 10-25 percent of average for the wettest month on average of the calendar year. Severe (D2) conditions arrived on September 26th and continued into early October.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1142800. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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