Event narrative (NOAA)
A major flood and flash flood event occurred on the Friday night, June 11 and into Saturday afternoon, June 12. Four separate thunderstorm cells/complexes moved over Scurry County between 9pm and 2:15 am CDT Friday night with the first initial flooding report at 9:30pm west of Snyder on Highway 180. Rain totals of 5-7 inches were common across northern Scurry County, and heavy rains from the night of the 10th contributed to the flooding as well. At about 1:45 am, the Department of Public Safety reported water starting to flow over U.S. 84 between Snyder and Dermott. One more bout of heavy rain crossed over this area for the next half hour, then the storms moved off to the east.Department of Transportation personnel were waving at people attempting to keep them from entering the flood w
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.