Flood — Willacy, Texas

2015-10-25 to 2015-10-30 · near Sebastian, Willacy, Texas

$2.5M

Property damage

Event narrative

Hazardous, high water on roadways, in homes, and across cropland continued across nearly all of eastern Willacy County.

Wider weather episode

Moisture from Hurricane Patricia, additional lift from the slowly east'moving bands, and the approach of a front/wind shift from the ranchlands combined to produce a two hour period of blinding rains across most of Willacy, with the highest totals once again in the San Perlita'Willamar'Santa Monica area. Radar estimates of 3 to 6 additional inches in about two hours fell over areas inundated just days before. This new rainfall resulted in flash flooding across much of eastern Willacy County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 605981. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.