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To: bentway who wrote (897659)10/31/2015 10:50:52 AM
From: Wharf Rat   of 1574614
 
congrats.

Airport smashes rainfall record, causing historic flooding
12:18 am By Jim Spencer under Weather



Friday’s floods on Onion Creek in Austin and on the Blanco River in San Marcos were almost exactly the same flood levels as on Halloween 2013 (Onion Creek) and Memorial Weekend this year (Blanco River). The flood levels and rainfall totals will go into the history books:

  • All-time record flood on Onion Creek at Driftwood: 26.39’ today. Previous high: 25.10’ on 10/17/1998
  • 2nd highest flood on Onion Creek at US-183: 39.12’ today. Previous high: 40.15’ on 10/31/2013
  • 2nd highest flood on Blanco River at San Marcos: 42.56’. Previous high: 43.08’ on 5/24/2015
  • 2nd highest flood on record on Barton Creek at loop 360: 18.92’. Previous high: 26’ on 5/25/1929
ALL-TIME 24 HR RAIN RECORD SMASHED AT ABIA: 14.54” today. Previous record: 8.70” on 11/23/1974.

WETTEST MONTH ON RECORD AT ABIA: 22.08? this month. Previous record: 15.59 in June, 1981.

*Record daily rainfall at Camp Mabry: 4.92”. Now 52.33” in 2015—3rd wettest on record since 1891, with 2 months remaining in the year. Record is 64.68” in 1919.

*Record daily rainall at ABIA: 14.54”. Now 55.26” in 2015—2nd wettest year on record since 1942, with 2 months remaining in year. Record is 55.74” in 1957.

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