TEXAS, OKLAHOMA HIT WITH MORE FLOODING
It has been a very wet period for the Southern Plains as Texas and Oklahoma are hit by yet even more torrential rains. A stagnant weather pattern over the south-central US continues to focus moisture and storms over the region. (SEE DEADLY FLOODING IN NORTHERN TEXAS on 24-20 June 2007.) The latest round of heavy storms dumped up to 18 inches of rain in Central Texas on the night of 26 June 2007 (Tuesday). It has been the wettest year on record so far for Austin, which has received over 30 inches of rain since January. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is used to monitor rainfall over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals are shown in the image above for the period 20 to 28 June 2007. The MPA shows upwards of 200 mm (~8 inches, red areas) fell over parts of Central Texas and southern Oklahoma. A broad area of at least 50 mm (~2 inches) of rain fall covers almost all of Texas and Oklahoma. Click here to see a larger time series graph of rain over central Texas. Click here to see TRMM web pages that show areas of high flood potential anywhere on earth.

TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
and caption by Hal Pierce and Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).