[21] All rainfalls totals from this storm are still preliminary and require review; but, if verified, this amount breaks not only the Texas
state rainfall record but also the record for the remaining Lower 48 states.
• Harvey lasted 117 hours as a named storm after Texas landfall, shattering the old record for named storm longevity after Texas hurricane landfall set by Fern (1971) at 54 hours • Harvey broke the tropical cyclone - generated United
States rainfall record.
Not exact matches
As indicated by the June precipitation percentiles map below, the eastern United
States and much of India were much wetter than average, with
record rainfall across portions of India.
The west coasts of the United
States and Peru received
record rainfall and flooding, while hurricanes raged in Mexico, Hawaii, and Tahiti.
When Hurricane Harvey struck Texas on 25 August, the
state was hit by catastrophic flooding caused by
record rainfall.
Aurora suffered from massive flooding in July of 1996, setting a
state record with
rainfall.
«
State of the Climate Global Hazards May 2010 Jun 9, 2010 — A slow - moving severe storm system brought
record rainfall and flooding and spawned several... Flooding in South China from servere stroms on 10 May 2010... http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=hazards&year=2010...»
Dam engineers in California
stated they had never experienced the confluence of such events (
record rainfall, busted main spillway, blocked penstock through power station and threat of emergency spillway collapse).
In 2011 alone, the
state broke 34 heat
records, 27
rainfall records, and experienced cases of extreme drought in multiple counties.
«Harvey was the most significant tropical cyclone
rainfall event in United
States history, both in scope and peak
rainfall amounts, since reliable
rainfall records began around the 1880s».
El Niño was responsible for much of those years»
record rainfall and caused a slew of mudslides across the
state.
Aurora suffered from massive flooding in July of 1996, setting a
state record with
rainfall.