TEXAS – With some areas in the Texas Hill Country seeing between 10-20″ of rain since the 4th of July, and as we start a new week, are STILL seeing downpours leading to more flash flooding, the question is, what’s happening there?
Similar (but obviously not on the same scale) to what happened with Houston during Hurricane Harvey, the relentless rains in the Hill Country are wedged between two competing atmospheric systems.
A stout area of high pressure spinning near El Paso has been pulling in moisture leftover from Hurricane Flossie. To the east, an area of low pressure offshore of New Orleans is also churning Gulf moisture, wrapping around it, sending it into Central Texas.
Until one of these systems finally gives ground to the other, the weakness created in the atmosphere across the Hill Country will continue to have plenty of lift and moisture to generate more storms. As you might expect, with some areas already seeing a foot or rain or more, anything more they get will create flash flooding conditions in some locations.
The KPRC2 Weather Team will continue to monitor any changes/shifts in this forecast, but we’re not expecting these storms to move far enough east to affect our forecast.