A downpour of rain soaked Texas County this weekend, giving many areas more rain than it had received the previous 30 days combined.
At Eunice, Herald weather watcher Shirley Daugherty reported 3.91 inches of rain Saturday. She had received just .49 inches in June.
Jim Panetta reported 3.70 inches at Yukon and Jim Roth, who lives just south of Houston, received 3.03 inches.
In downtown Houston, Karen Becker reported 3.86 inches.
“I said we needed some rain, but this is close to scary,” Panetta said.
Other areas didn’t get hit as hard. Randy Williams reported 1.68 inches in Licking while Nadra Curtis received .80 inches from a rain that started after 7 p.m.
Texas County received just a portion of the storms that soaked southwest Missouri. The Springfield area saw as much as 2 inches of rain in an hour Friday, said Doug Cramer, a meteorologist with the weather service.
“It doesn’t take much of a storm to produce flash flooding in the Ozarks because of the way the terrain is,” he said.
The weather service also issued flood watches and warnings Saturday for much of southeast Kansas and said runoff from the heavy rainfall could cause more flooding.