Flash Flood — Chambers, Texas

2019-09-19 · near Winnie, Chambers, Texas

Event narrative

Numerous roads flooded and closed, unsafe for travel including most north and east of CR 1410 and Interstate 10. I10 feeder road closed due to flooding near SH 124.

Wider weather episode

A weak surface low pressure system strengthened into Tropical Storm Imelda just after noon on September 17th around 15 miles south southwest of Freeport. Imelda moved onshore near Freeport and quickly weakened to a tropical depression. Imelda moved very slowly to the north-northwest then north-northeast over the next few days and produced a few heavy rain bands that caused devastating flooding across portions of Southeast Texas...with maximum amounts over 40 inches falling mainly over a 24 hour period. Imelda is the 7th wettest tropical cyclone to impact the United States, the 5th wettest in the contiguous United States, and the 4th wettest in the state of Texas. Although fresh water flooding was the main impact, an EF-1 tornado also occured in a cell within one of the leading bands from the storm. This damaged an area on the north side of Baytown near the Highlands.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 858086. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.