The wettest month on record in the Metroplex is 17.64 inches in April 1922. May 12 and May 21 are now tied as the third-wettest May days in the city's weather records.Īccording to senior meteorologist Nick Wiltgen, May 2015 now exceeds Corpus Christi's total rainfall for the entire drought-parched year of 2011, which was only 12.06 inches.ĭallas-Fort Worth, Texas – 16.96 inches of rain fell at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, smashing the old May record of 13.66 inches in 1982. Amazingly, just nine days prior, exactly 4.56 inches of rain also fell in the city. A total of 4.56 inches fell on May 21 to clinch the record. As of late May 31, the monthly rainfall total stood at 13.21 inches this will replace June 1941 (12.05 inches) as the city's wettest month ever recorded.Ĭorpus Christi, Texas – Rainfall in May 2015 was 14.32 inches, which is well beyond the previous May record of 10.44 inches that was set in 1941. And it had never observed weather quite like that of this May. May 2015 was only the 31st-wettest month overall for Brownsville, counting the entire calendar.Ĭhildress, Texas – Despite a population of just 6,000 or so, this northwest Texas town is one of the National Weather Service's official 'first-order' climate and weather observation sites. The previous May record had been 9.12 inches in 1982.īecause of the many hurricanes that have hit the region over the decades, this month was easily outranked by a slew of Septembers and Octobers on the year-round list. September 1921, with 20.78 inches, leads the pack for the city's wettest month.Īcross town, Austin Bergstrom International Airport logged its second-wettest May since records began in 1943, tallying 13.44 inches, exactly a quarter-inch shy of the May record set in 1965.īrownsville, Texas – While most other areas of Texas finally caught a break, Brownsville saw torrential downpours totaling 3.50 inches on the final day of May, sending the southernmost large city in Texas to a new May rainfall record of 9.72 inches. It's also the third wettest month on record. The May rain tally was 17.59 inches, making it by far the wettest May on record, topping the old record of 14.10 inches in May 1895. The all-time record is 9.81 inches in May 1951.Īustin (Camp Mabry), Texas – Extremely heavy rainfall on May 25 dumped 5.20 inches of rain at Camp Mabry, lifting Austin to its wettest May on record. Here's a final look at May's numerous records.Īmarillo, Texas – 9.29 inches of rain had fallen, making it the second-wettest May on record. The rankings next to each city's rainfall totals indicates where May 2015 ranked among their record wettest Mays.įrom Colorado and Nebraska to Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, several cities have seen one of their wettest Mays on record. Worth, Wichita Falls, Oklahoma City and Corpus Christi. Many cities set a record wettest May or month including Dallas-Ft. 'Spring is usually wet, but not this wet.'Īt one time, more than 170 locations in the central and southern Plains reported river flooding, the majority of which were in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, eastern Kansas and Missouri. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas state climatologist in a press release Wednesday. 'It has been one continuous storm after another for the past week to 10 days in several regions of the state,' said Dr. Not to be outdone, Texas has picked up a statewide average of 8.81 inches in May, crushing the previous record wet month of June 2004 during which a statewide average of 6.66 inches of rain fell, according to the Office of the State Climatologist at Texas A&M University. State climatologist Gary McManus from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey calculated the May rainfall total averaged over all Sooner State reporting stations - 14.40 inches - clobbered the previous record wet month, set in October 1941 (10.75 inches). (Jeanne Johnson May via The Weather Channel Facebook) 1 SSE Wichita Eisenhower National Airport – 3.Flooding in Wood County, Texas near the Sabine River on May 27, 2015.Here are the rainfall totals received by the KSN Storm Track 3 Weather Center. Numerous cars were caught in flooding in Wichita which caused them to stall out. The rain produced flash flooding in Butler, Kingman and Sedgwick County. Many areas reported over three inches as thunderstorms tracked over the same area for several hours. (KSNW) – Several inches of rain fell in south-central Kansas on Tuesday night.

Wichita falls precipitation totals