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Tropical Storm Amelia made landfall on Texas in August of 1978. It was rather unimpressive. However, once it made it to the Edwards Plateau and Hill Country, it became a huge rainmaker. Pine Bluff got up to 46 inches of rain in 52 hours. Albany got 29 inches of rain. Amelia is actually Texas's big rain event, bigger than Claudette (1979) and Allison (2001). The satellite images of the rain event eerily looks similar to Allison and Charley (1998).

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TS Claudette still holds as the biggest rain event in my book. However I rate these rain events by intensity rather than coverage. Claudette dropped 43" in 24 hours.

KatDaddy wrote:TS Claudette still holds as the biggest rain event in my book. However I rate these rain events by intensity rather than coverage. Claudette dropped 43" in 24 hours.

How much rain fell in your area when Claudette was around? I could never find satellite or radar images of TS Claudette. I know Alvin itself got 27 inches of rain. The 43 inches was 2 miles northwest of Alvin, which means it was a core rain event, like Amelia, Allison, and Charley (1998). I read that when Hurricane Camille went over Virginia, it may have dumped as high as 46 inches of rain in 8 hours! I know 27 to 31 inches fell in that area.

I estimate we had 22" in east Pearland.

Tropical Storm Claudette (1979)
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Claudette produced torrential rains in both Texas and Louisiana when it made landfall. The highest one-day total was reported near Alvin, Texas where 42 inches of rain fell. This remains the twenty-four hour rainfall record for any location in the United States.[1] Two other towns also reported rainfall totals exceeding 30 inches.[1] There was only one death from drowning and Louisiana received only minor damage from up to 15 inches (381 mm) of rainfall.[2] Texas was hard hit by Claudette, with flooding reported in southeast Texas from up to 45 inches (1143 mm) of rainfall. Many residents had to be rescued from low lying areas that were flooded.[1]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/al ... /prior.htm

Tropical Storm Claudette (1979)
Location Rainfall
Alvin (Coop) 45.00
Alvin (NWS) 30.70
League City 24.90
Freeport 23.59
Pearland 22.60
Angleton 18.61
Matagorda 14.65
Galveston 14.47
Hobby Airport 11.02
San Jacinto Dam 9.69
Sugarland 3.83
Intercontinental Airport 3.13