Event narrative (NOAA)
Significant to locally devastating flash flooding began in the McAllen/Mission metropolitan area during mid-afternoon. Rainfall rates of at least 3 in 30 minutes were too much for the city's drainage infrastructure to handle, and soon after, city fire/rescue/police reported more than two dozen roads closed citywide and up to forty homes with an unknown amount of water depth inside, to the Emergency Management Coordinator. ||It was likely that several hundred homes had incident flooding, from affected to major damage - most concentrated in the south side of the city. The frontage roads on IH2 (Mission/McAllen) and IH-69C (Pharr/Edinburg) flooded with varying amounts of water, and hundreds of vehicles were stranded. The highest water was at least four feet in spots along the frontage sou
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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.