Volume
23 Number 6 JUNE 2010
June 2010 was drier than normal across
most of Texas, though there were a few distinct regions that received above
normal precipitation for the month. A storm system on the 9th and 10th dumped several
inches of precipitation in region stretching from Austin/San Antonio
northeastward to Texarkana. This same storm system was responsible for several
flooding deaths at a campground in Arkansas. College Station picked up
4.27" of precipitation on the 9th and extensive flooding was reported
along Guadalupe and Comal Rivers in Central Texas. Tyler picked up 8.14"
on the 10th and 8 to 12 inches of rainfall caused extensive damage to homes and
washed out roadways in Hill and Navarro counties. Severe thunderstorms in the
Panhandle on the 13th dumped over 6 inches of rain in Hansford County and in
Moore County, a storm dropped a massive 6-inch
hailstone that was caught on video. Toward the end of the month, a tropical
system that eventually became Hurricane Alex formed in the Gulf of Mexico and
threatened the Lower Texas Gulf Coast. Alex made landfall on the evening of the
30th in northern Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds. Hurricane
Alex’s most significant impact was excessive rainfall, which led to flooding on
South Padre Island. On the 30th, McAllen set a daily rainfall record for the
entire month of June with 6.66" of rainfall, while Brownsville recorded
5.86" of precipitation, setting a 24-hour rainfall record for June. In addition
to the flooding rains in the Lower Valley, several tornadoes were reported and
one of the twisters overturned a mobile home.
Temperatures across all of Texas were
above normal across the entire state. Dallas/Fort Worth was particularly hot,
tying 2008 as the 3rd warmest June on record and was just half a degree cooler
than June 1980, which was the beginning of most severe heat wave in the history
of the Metroplex. Averaged over the entire month, minimum temperatures in DFW
were the warmest ever recorded in June. San Angelo was also unusually warm,
with average temperatures nearly 6°F above normal and maximum temperature
nearly 7°F above normal during June. A historically hot stretch of weather
brought extreme summer heat to West Texas during the first week of June, well
before the official start of summer. The high temperature of 106°F on the 5th
smashed the previous record of 102°F. Midland also set a record on the 5th with
a high temperature of 109°F and El Paso set new record high temperatures on the
5th (106°F) and 6th (110°F), the latter of which was 5°F warmer than the
previous record). During the second week of June, Wink recorded the warmest
maximum temperature in the United States on consecutive days, reaching 106°F on
the 10th and 107°F on the 11th. Maximum and minimum June average temperatures
were above normal at every single first-order station in Texas, with
particularly large positive departures from normal in North Texas.
JUNE 2010
|
|
TMAX |
TMIN |
Mean Temp |
Precipitation |
|
|||||||||
|
Station |
Avg. |
Dep. |
Abs. Max |
Avg. |
Dep. |
Abs. Min |
Avg. |
Dep. |
No. Days |
Total (In.) |
Percent Avg. |
Gr'st 24 hr.
(In.) |
HDD* |
CDD* |
|
Abilene |
93.9 |
2.8 |
98 |
72.2 |
3.7 |
63 |
83.0 |
3.2 |
6 |
3.32 |
108% |
2.66 |
0 |
546 |
|
Amarillo |
92.0 |
4.6 |
100 |
65.1 |
4.0 |
58 |
78.6 |
4.3 |
6 |
1.00 |
30% |
0.60 |
0 |
414 |
|
Austin |
93.2 |
2.3 |
99 |
75.0 |
3.9 |
67 |
84.1 |
3.1 |
6 |
5.93 |
156% |
2.50 |
0 |
581 |
|
Brownsville |
93.8 |
3.3 |
97 |
77.4 |
2.5 |
70 |
85.6 |
2.9 |
7 |
7.62 |
260% |
5.86 |
0 |
628 |
|
College Station |
91.9 |
0.2 |
96 |
75.9 |
4.4 |
70 |
83.9 |
2.3 |
7 |
9.03 |
238% |
4.31 |
0 |
573 |
|
Corpus Christi |
91.9 |
1.7 |
96 |
75.0 |
1.5 |
65 |
83.5 |
1.6 |
8 |
6.97 |
197% |
3.38 |
0 |
561 |
|
Dallas-Fort Worth |
96.4 |
5.3 |
100 |
76.6 |
5.9 |
69 |
86.5 |
5.6 |
6 |
2.08 |
64% |
0.81 |
0 |
653 |
|
Del Rio |
95.0 |
1.3 |
99 |
74.7 |
2.6 |
66 |
84.9 |
2.0 |
5 |
0.71 |
30% |
0.44 |
0 |
603 |
|
El Paso |
98.6 |
3.3 |
110 |
71.8 |
3.0 |
62 |
85.2 |
3.1 |
3 |
1.08 |
124% |
0.92 |
0 |
613 |
|
Galveston |
88.6 |
2.0 |
93 |
79.3 |
1.5 |
70 |
84.0 |
1.8 |
7 |
2.37 |
59% |
0.91 |
0 |
575 |
|
Houston |
93.4 |
2.7 |
99 |
76.1 |
4.3 |
70 |
84.7 |
3.4 |
8 |
3.75 |
70% |
2.74 |
0 |
599 |
|
Lubbock |
93.9 |
3.9 |
105 |
68.0 |
3.9 |
62 |
81.0 |
3.9 |
5 |
2.55 |
86% |
1.21 |
0 |
488 |
|
Midland |
97.4 |
4.7 |
109 |
70.7 |
4.3 |
61 |
84.1 |
4.5 |
7 |
3.97 |
232% |
2.69 |
0 |
580 |
|
Port Arthur |
91.7 |
2.3 |
97 |
75.2 |
2.9 |
71 |
83.5 |
2.6 |
10 |
3.29 |
50% |
0.75 |
0 |
563 |
|
San Angelo |
97.7 |
6.9 |
106 |
72.4 |
4.8 |
61 |
85.0 |
5.8 |
6 |
1.96 |
78% |
0.96 |
0 |
608 |
|
San Antonio |
91.9 |
0.5 |
96 |
75.2 |
3.6 |
67 |
83.5 |
2.0 |
5 |
4.24 |
99% |
2.40 |
0 |
562 |
|
Victoria |
93.0 |
2.7 |
97 |
75.1 |
1.8 |
67 |
84.0 |
2.2 |
9 |
2.99 |
60% |
1.34 |
0 |
580 |
|
Waco |
95.0 |
3.0 |
99 |
75.8 |
5.2 |
68 |
85.4 |
4.1 |
6 |
5.72 |
186% |
3.91 |
0 |
619 |
|
Wichita Falls |
94.5 |
2.8 |
98 |
71.8 |
4.0 |
64 |
83.2 |
3.5 |
5 |
3.47 |
94% |
1.75 |
0 |
551 |
|
Shreveport, LA |
94.9 |
5.1 |
101 |
74.5 |
4.6 |
71 |
84.7 |
4.8 |
10 |
2.84 |
56% |
1.66 |
0 |
598 |
* Bold
italics indicate a monthly record.
*
Complete temperature data were unavailable. Temperatures are rounded to the
nearest whole degree.
*HDD
- Heating degree-day: Refer to the Monthly Average chart for a definition T = Trace
(<0.005")
*CDD
- Cooling degree-day: Refer to the Monthly Average chart for a definition M: Information not
available.
CLIMATIC
AVERAGES FOR JULY
|
|
TMAX |
TMIN |
Precipitation
(In.) |
Mean Number of
Days in Month |
||||||||
|
Station |
Avg. |
Record |
Avg. |
Record |
Avg. |
Gr'st Mon. Total |
Gr'st 24 hr.
Total |
TMAX > 90°F |
TMIN < 32°F |
Days PRCP ≥
0.01" |
HDD* |
CDD* |
|
Abilene |
94.8 |
110 |
72.3 |
54 |
1.7 |
8.04 |
5.67 |
26.3 |
0.0 |
5.1 |
0 |
568 |
|
Amarillo |
91.0 |
106 |
65.3 |
51 |
2.7 |
8.02 |
7.25 |
19.9 |
0.0 |
7.8 |
1 |
405 |
|
Austin |
95.0 |
109 |
73.4 |
57 |
2.0 |
12.80 |
5.46 |
28.0 |
0.0 |
5.1 |
0 |
605 |
|
Brownsville |
92.4 |
102 |
75.4 |
58 |
1.8 |
13.24 |
6.68 |
27.7 |
0.0 |
5.0 |
0 |
601 |
|
College Station |
95.6 |
110 |
73.6 |
58 |
1.9 |
9.30 |
5.09 |
27.9 |
0.0 |
5.0 |
0 |
607 |
|
Corpus Christi |
93.2 |
105 |
74.4 |
64 |
2.0 |
18.13 |
9.86 |
28.4 |
0.0 |
4.7 |
0 |
594 |
|
Dallas-Fort Worth |
95.4 |
110 |
74.6 |
56 |
2.1 |
11.13 |
4.01 |
28.2 |
0.0 |
4.3 |
0 |
621 |
|
Del Rio |
96.2 |
111 |
74.3 |
63 |
2.0 |
13.18 |
6.34 |
27.8 |
0.0 |
4.3 |
0 |
630 |
|
El Paso |
94.5 |
112 |
72.0 |
56 |
1.5 |
8.18 |
2.63 |
26.8 |
0.0 |
8.2 |
0 |
552 |
|
Galveston |
88.7 |
101 |
79.8 |
66 |
3.5 |
18.74 |
14.35 |
9.1 |
0.0 |
7.7 |
0 |
596 |
|
Houston |
93.6 |
105 |
73.5 |
62 |
3.2 |
14.80 |
5.45 |
27.3 |
0.0 |
8.9 |
0 |
573 |
|
Lubbock |
91.9 |
109 |
67.7 |
49 |
2.1 |
7.20 |
4.38 |
22.4 |
0.0 |
6.3 |
0 |
472 |
|
Midland |
94.3 |
112 |
69.1 |
49 |
1.9 |
8.50 |
5.99 |
25.8 |
0.0 |
5.0 |
0 |
512 |
|
Port Arthur |
91.6 |
108 |
73.8 |
61 |
5.2 |
18.71 |
10.56 |
24.5 |
0.0 |
11.2 |
0 |
553 |
|
San Angelo |
94.4 |
111 |
70.4 |
56 |
1.1 |
7.21 |
2.95 |
26.8 |
0.0 |
4.3 |
0 |
554 |
|
San Antonio |
94.6 |
106 |
74.0 |
60 |
2.0 |
16.92 |
9.90 |
27.7 |
0.0 |
4.6 |
0 |
607 |
|
Victoria |
93.4 |
110 |
75.0 |
61 |
2.9 |
20.34 |
8.41 |
28.0 |
0.0 |
7.2 |
0 |
601 |
|
Waco |
96.7 |
109 |
74.1 |
60 |
2.2 |
8.95 |
4.93 |
28.7 |
0.0 |
5.0 |
0 |
637 |
|
Wichita Falls |
97.2 |
114 |
72.4 |
54 |
1.6 |
11.86 |
3.93 |
28.0 |
0.0 |
4.7 |
0 |
618 |
|
Shreveport, LA |
93.3 |
107 |
73.4 |
58 |
4.0 |
25.45 |
4.96 |
25.7 |
0.0 |
8.1 |
0 |
554 |
*CDD
- Cooling degree-day: The difference between the mean individual daily
temperature and 65°F, with one CDD resulting for each degree above the standard
65°F during one day.
*HDD - Heating degree-day: The difference between
the mean individual daily temperature and 65°F, with one HDD resulting for each
degree below the standard 65°F during one day.
Climate-related
Agricultural Information
Past Weather
Events in July
July 21, 1909: Hurricane. Velasco, Brazoria County. One-half of town destroyed, 41 lives lost;
damage $2,000,000.
July 22-25, 1933: Tropical Storm. One of the greatest U.S.
storms in area and general rainfall.
The storm reached the vicinity of Freeport late on July 22 and moved
very slowly overland across eastern Texas, July 22-25. The storm center moved into northern
Louisiana on the 25th. Rainfall averaged
12.50 inches over an area of about 25,000 square miles. Twenty inches or more fell in a small area of
eastern Texas and western Louisiana surrounding Logansport, LA. The 4-day total at Logansport was 22.30
inches. Property damage was estimated at
$1,114,790.
July 30, 1933: Tornado. Oak Cliff section of
Dallas, Dallas County. Five
killed, 30 injured; damage $500,000.
July 25, 1934: Hurricane. Near Seadrift, Calhoun
County. Nineteen lives lost, many minor injuries; damage $4.5 million. About 85 percent of damage was in crops.
July 27, 1943: Hurricane. Near Galveston. Center moved inland across Bolivar Peninsula
and Trinity Bar. A wind gust of 104 mph
was recorded and Texas City; 19 lives lost; damage estimated at $16,550,000.
July 24-25, 1979: Tropical Storm Claudette
caused over $750 million in property and crop damages, but fortunately only few
injuries. Near Alvin, 43 inches of rain
fell, a new state record for 24 hours.
Dr.
John Nielsen-Gammon (State Climatologist)
Brent
McRoberts (Research Associate)