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) Flooding in Wood County, Texas near the Sabine River on May 27, 2015.
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