Tropical Storm Claudette 1979 Coverage

[Ptarmigan]

Here is Tropical Storm Claudette coverage from 1979. It dumped 43 inches of rain in 24 hours over Alvin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXBg-ZS5z0

There are Doppler radar and satellite images of Tropical Storm Claudette. The center is well north of Beaumont. The southern part of the storm is what dumps the heavy rain. It reminds me of Tropical Storm Imelda. The heavy rain is south of the eye.

Here is a satellite image of Claudette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ePNawGYHI

Notice after it makes landfall, thunderstorms keep flaring over Southeast Texas. There is likely training.

[Ptarmigan]

How Claudette compares to other storms including Harvey.
https://damfailures.org/wp-content/uplo ... Harvey.pdf

Claudette dumped 43 inches of rain in 24 hours. Allison likely dumped over 29 inches in 12 to 24 hours. Harvey dumped over 34 inches in 24 hours.

In terms of area, Harvey is much larger than Claudette, Allison, Beulah, and June 1899. The October 1994 Flood exceeds Allison and Claudette as it happened over large area.

[Rip76]

Awesome, thank you for posting these.

[Katdaddy]

I was 10 years old living in E Pearland. Received 22” of rain in 24 hours. We got a break in the afternoon and remember the dark skies off to the S toward Alvin. Right about dark there was a wave of low clouds that looked like smoke. A minute later the deluge returned and continued until 2AM. The house came very close to flooding.

[Ptarmigan]

I was 10 years old living in E Pearland. Received 22” of rain in 24 hours. We got a break in the afternoon and remember the dark skies off to the S toward Alvin. Right about dark there was a wave of low clouds that looked like smoke. A minute later the deluge returned and continued until 2AM. The house came very close to flooding.

Looks like most of the rain fell at night during Claudette.