Yet another urban center has been seemingly laser-targeted with extraordinary cloudbursts in this strange U.S. summer of drought and flood. A series of "training" storms – well predicted by forecast models two days in advance – dropped torrential rain across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex from Sunday evening into midday Monday

At Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the metro area's main climate observing site, the total of 9.19 inches from 3 p.m. CDT Sunday to 3 p.m. Monday was the second heaviest on record for any 24-hour span, topped only by 9.57 on September 4-5, 1932.

Even heavier totals were observed just east and south of downtown Dallas, on par with amounts one might expect in such a short period only about once every 1,000 years. The highest reported as of Monday night was 15.16 at a gauge within the Dallas Area Flood Alert System located at White Rock Creek and Scyene Road.