Tropical storm Hermine maintained its organization after coming ashore in northeastern Mexico and southeastern Texas. On its northward track, Hermine dumped excessive rainfall, created flooding and was the cause of more than 100 high-water rescues so far this week. The National Weather Service in San Antonio/Austin reported multiple homes flooded and multiple water rescues in the towns of Devine and Natalia.. Hal created a map of rainfall rates and a map of rainfall accumulations from Sept. 2 through mid-day on Sept. 9, 2010 that depicted Hermine’s rainfall totals over Texas and Oklahoma. To create the rainfall maps, Pierce used data from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) instrument and the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) data. The rate of rainfall (how much rain was falling in one hour) showed that Hermine was dropping over 50 mm/hr (~ 2 inches) of heavy rainfall in some areas of Texas.. |
