June 2007 Texas flooding - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

In June 2007, repeated flooding took place in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. The flooding caused 11 deaths. This was mainly due to a tropical rain belt

Tropical rain belt

The rainfall, and hence the tropical climate is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which oscillates from the northern to the southern tropics over the course of the year, roughly following the solar equator; it is largely a manifestation of the ITCZ...

that went too far up north.

Marble Falls

Marble Falls, Texas

Marble Falls is a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,959 at the 2000 census.Marble Falls is about northwest of Austin and north of San Antonio...

received 18 inches (457.2 mm) of rain in a matter of hours. KXAN's meteorologist Jim Spencer provided over 5 hours of live on-air coverage and interaction for the Marble Falls specific storm.

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