Drought — Inland Kenedy County, Texas

2023-10-01 to 2023-10-16 · Inland Kenedy County, Texas

Event narrative

Severe (D2) Drought covered all but a very small sliver of northwest Kenedy County from through October 9th, with the area shrinking to cover most of inland Kenedy County except the southeast corner (and the remaining northwest corner, each at Moderate, D1, levels) due to a thin area of 1 to more than 2 inches of rain during the afternoon of October 5th in southeast inland Kenedy County. Additional improvements would be realized by October 17th, courtesy of 0.75 to 1.5 inches in southern Kenedy County on October 10th.

Wider weather episode

Searing heat that dominated September continued into the first four days of October across the entire region, maintaining Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) Drought. Localized clusters of thunderstorms from southern Kenedy through Brownsville (Cameron County), and across the Jim Hogg/Starr/Zapata Brush Country/Rio Grande Plains on October 5th, associated with a cooling front, would begin gradual improvements across the entire region - though Severe to Extreme conditions would persist a bit longer.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1144881. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.