![]() ET) Dallas Fire-Rescue Responds To Nearly 200 Weather-Related Calls ET was more than 15 inches in one spot east of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service. Leave the area & call 911 ASAP for down(ed) lines." (3:14 p.m. ![]() "Teams are out in full force restoring outages as quickly & safely as possible," Oncor tweeted. The bulk of the outages are Oncor customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and to the east of the city. More than 37,000 power outages are being reported in Texas, according to. ![]() (AP Photo/LM Otero)Ĭlick through our slideshow above or here to see the latest photos from last night and today's flooding. Several other areas of western Louisiana and East Texas also received heavy rain, including Upshur County, Texas, where nearly 8 inches was reported.Ī car sits in floodwaters covering a closed highway in Dallas, Monday, Aug. Nearly 5.5 inches of rain fell in the past 24 hours in Shreveport, Louisiana, according to the National Weather Service. Local officials have declared a state of disaster in Dallas County and are requesting state and federal assistance. Local media reports said the incident happened in Mesquite, a suburb on the east side of Dallas, where much of the heaviest rain was concentrated. The woman's vehicle was swept away by floodwaters, according to County Judge Clay Jenkins. Here's a look at our live updates from throughout the day Monday. More than 9 inches of rain fell at the airport, marking the the wettest 24 hours on record dating back to 1932.Įmergency crews responded to hundreds of high-water related calls, including rescues and flooded cars and homes. The rainfall turned roads into rivers and prompted water rescues, airport travel delays and warnings of "dangerous, life threatening" flooding.ĭaily rainfall records were broken for both days at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. 28, 1946.At least one person is dead after heavy rainfall led to flash flooding Sunday night into Monday in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The previous high was 4.28 inches on Aug. Monday boasts the highest daily rainfall for August, at 5.66 inches. Rainfall on Sunday and Monday has also broken daily records for this time of year, according to NWS. The last time we had this much monthly rainfall was in 2018, with 11.31 inches in February, 12.69 in September and 15.66 in October. If the trend continues, this August could become the wettest in history by the end of the month. ![]() August 2020 had 1.28 inches of rain and 2019 2.44 inches. The year before holds the title of third wettest August, with 9.02 inches of rain.īy comparison, this month’s rain is more than double that of August 2021, which totaled 4.82 inches. That’s when the 1915 Galveston hurricane happened, inflicting about $30 million in damage and killing more than 400 people. With the past day’s rain, the precipitation total for this month has reached 10.08 inches, second only to the wettest August in 1915, with 10.33 inches of rain. The 10.08 inches of precipitation total this month is second only to the 1915 weather record.
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