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Tropical Storm Hermine & it’s Impact on Texas

Explore the consequences of Tropical Storm Hermine in Texas, focusing on rainfall, flooding, and damage along the IH-35 corridor. Evaluate water resource data integration using ArcGIS technology. Access relevant data sources to better understand storm precipitation and stream discharge.

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Tropical Storm Hermine & it’s Impact on Texas

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  1. Tropical Storm Hermine& it’s Impact on Texas Steven Vargas, PE

  2. Introduction • Tropical Storm Hermine formed off the Bay of Campeche on September 3, 2010. • Over the next several days, Hermine produced record-setting rainfall, flooding and damage in Texas and primarily up and down the IH-35 corridor. • Because of the magnitude of flooding, the governor of Texas declared those areas affected by the storm as disaster areas.

  3. Flooding after TS Hermine 8 fatalities Over $115 million in property damage

  4. Project Purpose Perform an evaluation of the storm and its consequences in Texas • Storm Track • Precipitation • Stream discharge • Flooding area Better understand water resource data and how to integrate different source data using ArcGIS

  5. Data Sources • National Hurricane Center provides historical tropical cyclone track GIS data at: http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/viewer.html • National Climate Data Center provides NEXRAD Radar rainfall data at: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/radarresources.html • NHDplus provided surface water dataset of Texas • USGS stream gages & real time dataset • NEXRAD historical radar

  6. Storm History &Track

  7. Storm Precipitation • Rain gages -419 rain gages operated by National Weather Service (NWS) in Texas • Radar data -NEXRAD collected rainfall radar data

  8. Landfall Radar on Sept 7, 2010

  9. Storm Total Rainfall

  10. Normal Rainfall for Sept 2010

  11. Observed Rainfall for Sept 2010

  12. Departure from Normal Rainfall for Sept 2010

  13. Departure from Normal Rainfall for Sept 2010 as Percentage

  14. Rainfall totals from TS Hermine for Sept 6-9,2010.

  15. One-Day Rainfall totals from TS Hermine on Sept 8, 2010.

  16. Texas Waterways-ArcGIS Layer

  17. USGS Texas Gauge Locations

  18. TX Mean Annual Flow (cfs)

  19. TX Stream Flow Maxima (cfs) during Hermine Storm Event

  20. Conclusion • Tropical Storm Hermine was a damaging tropical storm that hit areas within the IH-35 corridor particularly hard. • It wasn’t a particularly abnormal storm but the training effect of rain bands made it destructive. • Area infrastructure was not adequate to mitigate the subsequent flooding.

  21. Questions?

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