Devastating flash floods took the lives of many people in the Hill Country this Fourth of July weekend. Cities such as Kerrville, Hunt, Liberty Hill, Georgetown and Seguin saw mass flooding events due to heavy rainfall.
The area around San Marcos still had flash floods but received significantly less rain than many cities in Central Texas. Emily Heller, National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio, said the 24 hour precipitation reports for Thursday, July 3 into July 4 showed the highest rain reported near San Marcos was in Fischer, which received 3.77 inches of rain. In Hays County, Dripping Springs was hit the hardest, receiving 2.9 inches of rain across July 4 and 5.
“We had deep tropical moisture from the remnants of [hurricane] Barry on top of our already moist atmosphere that we had the previous week, so it's basically just a stalled out upper level disturbance that has kept this pattern in place the past couple of days,” Heller said. “These storms have basically tapped into the deep moisture and the high rain rates, and the slow moving nature of storms has really contributed to the flooding.”
