Drought in Kenedy Island, Texas

Severe (D2) Drought covered all of the Kenedy County barrier island through October 9th, with the area shrinking to cover the northern half of the Kenedy County barrier island with the southern half improving to Moderate (D1, levels) due to 0.25 to 0.75 inches during the afternoon of October 5th.

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.