Flash Flood — Runnels, Texas

2024-09-03 · near Miles, Runnels, Texas

Event narrative

Law Enforcement received a call of a fatality from flash flooding. A man was swept away by swiftly flowing water.

Wider weather episode

A significant heavy rainfall event occurred early in the month across mainly the Concho Valley, northern Heartland and southern Big Country due to a slow moving upper level storm system and a very moist tropical airmass, which was near record levels for early September. Numerous showers and a few thunderstorms produced localized heavy rainfall amounts greater than 10 inches across portions of northeast Tom Green, southwest Runnels and northern Concho counties which resulted in significant areal and flash flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1216288. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.