64.5", the rainfall record set by hurricane Harvey

[74-911]

Numerous areas in SE Texas received over 50" of rain during Harvey but after reviewing rainfall over the entire area, the NWS announced that Nederland, TX (a small town north of Beaumont) set the US record for rainfall with 64.5" over the 5 days of Harvey. The previous record of 50+" was set in Hawaii over 60 years ago.

Being the record holder in this category is definitely a dubious distinction. We had over 41" here at our house and that was mind-boggling. It is difficult to even imagine that amount of rainfall, much less 64.5".

[ckelly78z]

5'2.5" is the perfect pool depth, not that did much swimming.......that would suck.

[nota]

we once had 11.5'' of rain in 4 hours over nite
not a cane or even a TS and total missed in weather reports prior
that was the only time my houseboat took in real water
as it was too much too fast for the deck drains

ANDREW caused less water in that boat even after it blew off the big hatches

[tcar]

Big Thompson Canyon flood in '76... below Estes Park, CO...

14" in 4 hours... all funneled into a narrow canyon.

Cars floating down the canyon with lights on and screaming people inside.

Later found dead; buried in silt miles downriver.

[GothingNC]

Wow, crazy amount of rainfall !

I remember this one on Long Island a few years ago.

11 inches in 3 hours during rush hour.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08/13/astounding-record-smashing-rainfall-swamps-long-island/?utm_term=.fb032f38f6bc

[Jolly Amaranto]

I have no exact measurement of what fell at my place. I was out of the country during the whole affair so rely on my neighbor down the street who dumped out his 5" rain gauge every time it filled up. He totaled over 40". I had a rain gauge that I built using a 36" plastic tube that some maps came it. I had it marked off for one foot and never imagined it would accumulate more than that when I was out of town for an extended period. Well of course it was filled to the brim by the time I got home.

[dennis in se pa]

Originally Posted by tcar

Big Thompson Canyon flood in '76... below Estes Park, CO...

14" in 4 hours... all funneled into a narrow canyon.

Cars floating down the canyon with lights on and screaming people inside.

Later found dead; buried in silt miles downriver.

I was there a few days after. Amazing devastation.

[red-beard]

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-harvey-forecast-texas-louisiana-arkansas

[mattdavis11]

October 30, 2015. F1 race week, at the track, fell 15 inches of rain in a few hours. We had about 10 inches at the house that day, the same amount for Harvey over several days.

[daepp]

That's 4X our annual rainfall here outside of LA.

[David]

That's crazy rainfall for Nederland. When the forecasts were calling for over 50" of rain in Houston before Harvey even made first landfall I thought they were just hyping things for ratings. Boy was I wrong!

Here's the rain gauge data from work which is a few miles from my house. Notice the over 15" rainfall in 3 hours Saturday night. This was during the fight so you had many people out at parties watching the fight and not at home to protect their pets, cars, etc from raising water.

[Joe Bob]

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

I was there a few days after. Amazing devastation.

I was up there a month ago....a few remnants of the flood but they rebuilt it pretty well.