Southeast Texas tropical mid-latitude rainfall and flood event, October 1994

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Southern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; SR (Southern Region)
• Description:
  An October 1994 tropical mid-latitude rainfall event of unusual proportion occurred over a 30 to 35 county area of southeast Texas resulting in catastrophic flooding. The intense rainfalls, which totaled over 25 inches in several closed isohyetal centers and more than eight inches over much of the affected area, caused terrific problems as drainage capabilities, both natural and man-made, were overcome by the copious downpours. Resulting runoff quickly gathered into classic river floods, especially over the San Jacinto, Lower Trinity, and Lower Brazos Valleys, and to a somewhat lesser extent over another half-dozen Texas rivers.
• Keywords:
  Flood Damage Flood Forecasting Floods Observations Flood Damage Flood Forecasting
• Series:
  Natural disaster survey report
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Miscellaneous
• Place as Subject:
  Texas, South
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0ace978eeb71c1fffdb06ca5f78107ac9fccb5f10edc0de9b803177463e01a29
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/56791/noaa_56791_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 26.36 MB ]