Sheriff says 11 campers, camp counselor are still missing from floods inundating central Texas
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- Wall Street Journal
How Terrain in Texas Hills Turned Stalled Rainstorm Into Flood Disaster
A combination of steep terrain, shallow soil and a moisture-laden weather system that stalled over the Texas Hill Country caused the flash floods that killed at least 70 people Friday. The weather system that caused the flooding was fueled by moist air from the coastal plain that swept up the Hill Country's steep cliffs, condensed overhead, and for hours cascaded down those same cliffs. Narrow canyons then funneled the coursing water into creeks and rivers that rose and turned into deadly flash floods.
USA Today
18 minutes ago
- USA Today
What Texas cities flooded? Here's where the most rain fell this weekend
A convergence of heavy storms and inundated waterways led to a catastrophic flooding, which claimed dozens of lives across Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. The same storm system unleashed even heavier rainfall in areas west of Kerrville, Texas. Officials say at least 70 people have died in flooding triggered by unrelenting rain Thursday night into Friday. Sheriff Larry Leitha of Kerr County, where the worst of the flooding occurred, said 38 of the bodies recovered in the county have been adults and 21 were children. The suddenness of the disaster at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp, is starkly illustrated by data from a gauge on the Guadalupe River near Kerrville. The gauge surged from less than a two feet to more than 34 feet in just over an hour on July 4. How the Kerrville, Texas, flood gauge jumped on July 4 But the Kerrville area—which registered more than 11 inches of rain in the past three days—wasn't even hit by the the heaviest rain in the Central Texas region between San Antonio and Austin. Although the Kerrville area recorded more than 11 inches of rain in three days, other towns had nearly double its totals in parts of Central Texas between San Antonio and Austin. On July 4, rain was falling at 3-4 inches per hour, with some locations recording a deluge of up to 7 inches of rain in just three hours, the National Weather Service said. Seven inches of rain is nearly 122 million gallons of water per square mile. Over 7 square miles that's enough water to fill the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys. Cities flooded in Texas Three rain gauges north of Austin registered more than 20 inches of rain between the mornings of July 3 and July 6. Twelve others showed more than 15 inches. Portions of at least four cities in the region took on more than 10 inches of rain during the Independence Day weekend: Liberty Hill, 20.6; Lakeway, 13.5; Kerrville, 11.9; and Leander 10.5. How much rain did Texas get Hill Country, the region in Central and South Central Texas, also is known colloquially as 'flash flood alley,' for its propensity for fast and furious flooding when extreme rain falls, Alan Gerard, CEO of weather consulting company Balanced Weather said. As bountiful moist air from the Gulf of America, renamed from the Gulf of Mexico, moves over the steep hills, it can dump heavy rains. "The Gulf is warmer than normal and disturbances moving through that flow can focus thunderstorm activity on a particular area," he said. On July 4, it was a case of everything focusing in "exactly the wrong place." Contributing: Susan Miller and Christopher Cann
CNN
24 minutes ago
- CNN
Volunteers on horseback look for missing people
CNN's Isabel Rosales reports from Texas, where volunteers on horseback are looking to recover people who went missing during the flooding.
