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Extreme Texas Flooding Turns Deadly

23 Aug 2022, 2:50 pm

Heavy rainfall completely overwhelmed the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex overnight Sunday into Monday, stranding motorists, turning roads into rivers and shutting down the city. Sadly, the flooding has turned deadly as a 60 year old woman was found dead in her car after it was swept away by flood waters just east of Texas. The fire departments in Dallas and Fort Worth performed over 150 water rescues each since Sunday.

Our field correspondent Brandon Clement is in the Dallas Metro documenting how people had to be rescued from the flood waters, swimming away from their cars as water came up over the windshields.

NWS Fort Worth reported that over 9″ of rain fell in some locations of the metro-plex, in just 24 hours. The city has been dealing with a 10″+ deficit since the start of 2022, meaning that we have made up over half of that lack of rainfall in just one day. The DFW area typically only sees about 2″ of rainfall in all of August – Sunday night’s rain nearly tripled the monthly average and puts the city on track to potentially see the wettest August on record. The city has been dealing with intense drought conditions and extreme heat all summer and while we desperately need the rainfall in Texas, often times drought stricken soils act more like concrete at first, struggling to soak up the rainfall as the ground doesn’t soften immediately to the rain. Additionally, in the metro area, we have much more concrete and asphalt than soils, meaning it is hard to penetrate for rain and subsequent urban flooding occurs.

At one point, I-35 NB was shut down due to the extreme amount of water on the roadway. Still, people drove through the flood waters, stranding themselves and stalling out their vehicles. We know it is scary when you can’t find a way home but it is extremely important to turn around, don’t drown and seek higher ground during these flooding situations. Over 6,000 flights were impacted at Dallas-Fort Worth as a result of the rainfall.

Stay with WeatherNation as we continue to bring you the latest on the Texas flooding on-air and online, streaming 24/7.

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Alana Cameron
Alana Cameron was born and raised in Canada in the city of Mississauga, just outside of Toronto. Alana is the oldest of 4 siblings, all close in age, and grew up playing outside with them in all types of weather. After graduating high school, Alana moved to study at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna for a year before transferring to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where sh... Load Moree completed a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Atmospheric Science. Upon completion, Alana moved back to Toronto where she completed a post-grad degree in Meteorology at York University. After her post-grad, she went on to complete another post-grad in Broadcast Journalism - TV News at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. During her final year of studies she had the privilege of interning with the best in the business in Canada at The Weather Network. Once she finished her internship, she got the call from small-town Denison, Texas where she accepted a job as an on-air meteorologist at KTEN-TV, right in tornado alley, covering severe weather from Sherman/Denison (North Texas) to Ada (Southern Oklahoma). After the most active tornado season Oklahoma had seen in May 2019 (105 tornadoes!) Alana is excited to join WeatherNation to cover weather all across the nation. If you're interested in following her on social media she can be found @alanacameronwx!