“Unless we continue to see rain, we’ll just probably see drought conditions worsen again,” Barnes said.įarther west, about 60 people were forced to evacuate after a levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. She said that over the next week, there are only low chances of more rain. “It will probably put a small dent on the drought I would imagine but I don’t think it’s going to get rid of it by any means,” Barnes said. The wettest August was 10.33 inches in 1915. As of 2 p.m., the National Weather Service reported total rainfall for August of 10.08 inches at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. With the amount of rain that fell Monday, this August now ranks as the second-wettest on record for the area.
Meanwhile, the weather caused hundreds of delays and cancellations in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and at Dallas Love Field. “I don’t give up too easily.”ĭallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said on Twitter that based on preliminary damage assessments, he was declaring a state of disaster in Dallas County and requesting state and federal assistance. “I’m hoping by Thursday we’ll be able to open up the bar with a few snacks,” he told the newspaper.
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He said he may be able to salvage the furniture but he’ll need to replace rugs and carpets.ĭEVELOPING INTO THE EVENING: For an update later tonight, sign up for the Evening Briefing. Peter Tarantino, who owns Tarantino’s Cicchetti Bar and Record Lounge in Dallas, told The Dallas Morning News that about 6 inches of water flowed into the dining room, but had receded by late morning.
He noted that with so much concrete in urban areas, “there’s just only so much that the drain systems can handle.” “We had some locations there in Dallas that had more than 3 inches of rain even in one hour.” “It fell very, very quickly,” Huckaby said. Huckaby said that the flooding started overnight on streets and interstates. “It looks like we’re high in the mountains somewhere with some like Class V rapids, which is crazy,” Cody added. Trenton Cody, 29, said he drove over Monday morning to take a look at the effect the floodwaters were having on the lake’s dam. “As the rain stopped, the water started to recede pretty quick,” Neal said.Īt White Rock Lake in Dallas, where the water level has been low through the baking summer months, people with umbrellas and water-proof jackets braved the rain Monday morning to watch the deluge transform the lake’s previously dry concrete spillway into what looked like a roaring river. “We had to get to them by boat and pull them to safety,” said Neal, who added that others chose to stay in their flooded homes. 'MULTIPLE HIKERS BEING SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET': Arizona woman still missing after flash flooding at Zion National Park, authorities say Fire Chief Eric Neal said they rescued four people from one flooded home and one person from another. In Balch Springs, a Dallas suburb where last month a grass fire that started in a tinder-dry open field damaged over two dozen homes, officials on Monday rescued people from flooded homes. A 60-year-old woman was killed in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite when flood waters from South Mesquite Creek swept her vehicle from Texas 352 westbound at Interstate 635, officials said.ĭallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, as presiding officer of the Dallas County commissioners, declared a disaster had occurred in the county and requested federal and state assistance for affected individuals. “There was quite a bit of variation in the rainfall totals,” Barnes said.Īt least one fatality was blamed on the downpours as emergency responders across the area reported responding to hundreds of high-water calls. By Monday afternoon, the rain had moved out of the area, she said. “We’ve been in drought conditions, so the ground soaked up a lot of it but when you get that much rain over that short a period of time, it’s certainly going to cause flooding, and that’s what we saw, definitely in the urban areas here,” Huckaby said.Īcross the area, rainfall amounts ranged from less than 1 inch to over 15 inches, said National Weather Service meteorologist Sarah Barnes. The most was 9.57 inches which fell Sept. That ranked second for the top 10 most rain over 24 hours in Dallas on record.
The official National Weather Service record station at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reported 9.19 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. “The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight,” said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Watch Video: Dallas swamped by flooding from heavy rainĭALLAS - Heavy rains across the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads and water seeped into some homes and businesses.
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