At least 2,500 vehicles were abandoned, when drivers had to seek higher grounds. More than 500 water rescues were carried out by firefighters, which involved for the most part stranded motorists. Īlso on May 25, historic flooding along Shoal Creek inundated House Park in Austin, Texas damaging the turf among other things and forcing the Austin Aztex to search for a temporary home. Ī 25-foot-by-25-foot sinkhole near a runway at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport caused the closure of the runway for a few hours. Many parts in northern Texas recorded over 20 in (510 mm) of rain. Wichita Falls and Corpus Christi broke their previous records for all-time wettest month. Up to 100,000 customers were without power. Projections from the National Weather Service indicated that the river would reach a record crest of 25.5 ft (7.8 m) on May 26. Texas īoat ramp and pier flooded at Caddo Lake State Parkįlooding along the Wichita River prompted evacuations of 390 homes in Wichita Falls. At least 14 people were killed, including 10 in Texas and 4 in Oklahoma, and another 11 remain missing. On May 14, 2015, prior to extensive flooding beginning around May 24, flash flood warnings were issued for counties in South East Texas. In addition, rains were concentrated by several mesoscale convective vortices, small-scale centers of low-pressure that developed along the frontal bands, in some cases resembling mini-tropical cyclones." The stationary trough during May is linked to both the El Niño and amplified midlatitude short-wave train. He added,"Upper-level winds were largely aligned with the low-level frontal zone, an ideal setup for “ thunderstorm training” (successive downpours over the same area). This early-season flooding event adds up to multiple layers of vulnerability (dry conditions, deteriorating security, reduced access to basic necessities, etc.) and is expected to further exacerbate the food security situation in Haiti in the coming months.Mammatus clouds formed over Bull Creek park after wave of Memorial Day storms in Austin, May 25, 2015.Īccording to Bob Henson from Wunderground, inflow of low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the combination of very slow moving large-scale storm systems set the stage for the floods. Reduced volume and availability of local agricultural commodities were already observed at the end of May 2023, and dreaded for the rest of the year in Haiti. However, due to prolonged and accumulated dry conditions in March-April 2023, and an abnormal delay in the onset of the rains, not only the off-season production levels were abnormally low, but also the land preparation and planting phase of the main agricultural season was altered. Besides, given the current increased prices of imported goods, national agricultural production is more than ever eagerly-awaited. The livelihoods of many Haitian households are closely related to agriculture. 2) highlights the most vulnerable areas.įrom that map were derived the estimations of flooded hectares.ĪNTICIPATING AN AGGRAVATED FOOD SECURITY SITUATION Satellite imagery shows that the most affected areas are the West, South-East, Centre and North-West départements. Such amounts of rainfall early June have left very large cultivated land areas flooded, at a critical timing in the agricultural calendar, thus very likely to cause important agricultural losses. It is also the start of the main season land preparation and planting phase. This analysis intends to provide evidence of the impacts of this flooding event on agricultural land areas across the country, as detected from satellite imagery datasets, and to highlight the most vulnerable communes in that sense.Įarly June marks the end of the planting phase and the beginning of the growing one for the spring season. Livelihoods were also considerably impacted, more specifically agriculture. Most of the main rivers of the country flooded, causing additional scattered disasters (landslides, shipwrecks, etc.), and causing consequently huge damage to infrastructures (many road portions were unusable, enormous loss of goods in urban areas, etc.). The number of families who have suffered damage has been estimated to 46,118 (as of 6 June), including at least 51 fatalities and 12,646 displaced people (source : DGPC, see Map 2). Map 1 shows the intensity level of rainfall by commune on 3 June 2023. Two days after the start of the 2023 cyclonic season, on June 3rd, the levels of rainfall intensified after several days of precipitations, causing heavy flooding across Haiti.
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