Hurricane Pamela will cause heavy rain and flash flooding in Texas
Pamela is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane as it hits Mexico on Wednesday morning.
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Hurricane Pamela will not only hit Mexico in its wake, it is also expected to bring heavy rains and flash floods in Texas over the weekend, when forecasters estimate it to be a tropical storm.
Pamela is currently hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Baja California Sur, in Mexico, with Maximum sustained winds up to 177 kilometers per hour. Experts estimate that when it makes landfall later this week its intensity will increase significantly.
“A significant risk of flash floods will occur in parts from Texas in the next few days as Pamela’s tropical humidity heads north and interacts with a storm system intensifying in the central United States , ”said the chief meteorologist of AccuWeather , Jonathan Porter.
Here’s the # weather snapshot for # Wednesday , October 13. A powerful storm system will be departing the West into the Central portion of the US with a number of hazards from the Upper Midwest to southern Plains, including severe storms, heavy rainfall, snow and gusty winds. pic.twitter.com/a6QQb5mxYf
As Pamela moves further ashore, it will lose steam and meteorologists predict that when it reaches Northeast Texas it will become a tropical storm, a system with less power than a hurricane but extremely dangerous .
Torrential rains could fall from Big Bend to various parts of north-central Texas during Wednesday night through Thursday night.
According to AccuWeather, 4 to 8 inches of rain will fall in central Texas, but it will happen so quickly that it could lead to flash flooding in certain areas and overflow streams. It is estimated that they could fall up to 2 inches hourly rain .
Houston, Corpus Christi, Port Arthur and Lake Charles may not be affected by the heavy rains caused by Pamela. However, North and West Texas will suffer from hurricane-related rainfall .
Dallas, Fort Worth, Del Rio, Kerrville, Waco and Tyler are on flash flood alert starting Wednesday.
Although Pamela will hit Mexico, according to estimates, as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the greatest threats to the United States will translate into heavy rains and floods throughout the week.
On the other hand, the impact of Pamela will not affect the launch of the Blue Origin West Texas next 15 of October in which the actor William Shatner along with three other people will go to the earth’s atmosphere for a few days.
