Kenedy Island storm history

Extreme (D3) Drought developed across the the northern third of the Kenedy County portion of Padre Island National Seashore (PINS), on November 18th and continued through and beyond month's end. The combination of dryness, warm to hot temperatures, and very low soil moisture cont…

Severe (D2) level drought expanded to cover the northern two-thirds of Kenedy County's barrier island (Padre Island National Seashore) on March 25th, courtesy of breezy to windy, generally dry (low humidity) days, and above average day/night temperatures with no wetting dew. Cond…

Sarita Texas Water Development Board mesonet station recorded 12 hours, from 11:15pm on February 19 to 11:15am on February 20, of freezing temperatures (temperatures at or below 32F degrees). By proxy, as well as from observations along the coast at Baffin Bay and Rincon del San …

The Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON)/C-MAN platform at Brazos Santiago (South Padre Island), along the Isla Blanca jetty just inshore from the beachfront, recorded a prolonged period of much higher than predicted tides, with departures generally 2 feet or more abov…

Baffin Bay in Kenedy Island County recorded temperatures at or below freezing for 6.33 hours (between 224 AM and 848 AM on the 17th). A minimum temperature of 28.8F was recorded at 7:30 AM on the 17th.

Baffin Bay in Kenedy Island County recorded temperatures at or below freezing for 16 hours (spanning between 854 PM on the 15th and 1248 PM on the 16th. A Hard Freeze (temperatures below 28 degrees for 2 or more hours) occurred between the hours of 318 AM and 1112 AM on the 16th.…

A Minimum Wind Chill value of 12F degrees was recorded in Baffin Bay at 11 AM. The duration of temperatures within the wind chill criteria was for about 5.5 hours.

A Minimum Wind Chill value of 10F degrees was recorded in Baffin Bay at 8:24 AM. The duration of temperatures within the wind chill criteria was for about 12 hours. By proxy, and given persistent land-to-sea northwesterly flow driving the cold air eastward, the Kenedy barrier isl…

Severe (D2) Drought persisted into early November across the northern portions of the Kenedy County barrier island. Residual moisture from prior late October rains would improve conditions to Moderate (D1) Drought on the 7th.

General rains of 0.5 to 0.75 inches across the Kenedy County barrier island from late October 10th through early October 11th was enough to knock down drought conditions from Severe (D2) to Moderate (D1) or Abnormally Dry (D0) across the southern three-quarters of the area, with …

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 afternoo…

Beneficial rainfall from Tropical Storm Harold, which tracked through Kenedy County on August 22 and dropped between 1 and 3 inches of rainfall, was all dried up by the end of September. By the 26th, Severe (D2) Drought had covered all of the barrier island, courtesy of 10-25% of…

Lack of persistent rain and hot to very hot temperatures allowed Severe (D2) Drought to develop across the northern half of Kenedy Island on August 22nd, or about the northern 18 miles of the zone. Tropical Storm Harold brought some beneficial rain to the area on August 22nd and …

Lack of persistent rain coupled with dry to very dry conditions allowed Severe (D2) Drought to continue into April. Abundant rain, on the order of 1.5 to 3, fell on April 6th and 7th and allowed Severe (D2) Drought to exit Kenedy Island on the April 11th Drought update.

Lack of persistent rainfall coupled with dry to very dry conditions led to the development of Severe (D2) Drought across all of Kenedy Island in mid-March.

Temperatures fell below freezing around 1:12AM CST on December 23rd and did not rise above freezing until 2:48PM CST on December 24th, or a stretch of almost 38 hours. These times are estimates based on observations in Inland Kenedy and Coastal Kenedy. A low of 25 degrees was obs…

Severe (D2) Drought entered Kenedy Island in early August. It covered the northern half of the zone. Abundant rainfall from an area of low pressure moving inland from the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend of August 12th, 13th, and 14th, allowed Severe (D2) drought to be taken out o…