Speaking to The Weather Channel Thursday morning, Rod Carroll, Chief of the Vidor Police Department in Texas, told reporters flooding in the town was 'worse during this storm than it was during Hurricane Harvey.'
Despite failing to reach hurricane status, Tropical Storm Imelda, now downgraded to a depression, has drawn several comparisons to Hurricane Harvey, which devastated swathes of the American southeast in 2017.required to be classified as a hurricane.the floodwaters caused by Imelda were"worse than Harvey."Thursday morning, Rod Carroll, Chief of the Vidor Police Department in Texas, echoed these comments.
Meanwhile, Thursday's rainfall broke September records with the highest daily maximum rainfall for Houston topping. The previous record was 7.73 inches, set in 2008 on September 13, when Hurricane Ike hit the area. NASA’s IMERG estimated that by Thursday morning, September 19, Tropical Storm Imelda had dropped over 10 inches of rain over a large area between Houston and Beaumont, Texas. There were several preliminary reports of tornadoes on Wednesday evening, September 18.As well as having higher daily maximum rainfall, Hurricane Harvey broke the total rainfall record for a single storm in the continental U.S.
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