It’s been confirmed that one major U.S. state will be bombarded with catastrophic flooding over the next three days.
According to the National Weather Service, portions of southwestern Texas will deal with life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding through Friday. Certain parts of the Lone Star State will receive up to 2.5 inches of rain per hour.
“Activity blossomed around sunrise inland from the Middle Texas Coast along a stationary front east of activity over the Texas Hill Country (see MPD 725 for that area). An upper low is over North Texas with deep layer southerly flow over central/southern/eastern Texas. PW of 2.1″ has pooled along with front with elevated instability (SBCAPE of 3000 J/kg) advecting in from the south. The cells have been fairly small and are moving, but repeating activity is occurring with hourly rainfall estimates to 2.5″ near Victoria,” the National Weather Service said…