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Front moves across state bringing rain to Temple
Published: May 2, 2000
The front that slowly moved across Texas this weekend causing at least four damaging tornadoes statewide brought heavy early morning rains to the Temple area Monday.Officials at Temple's Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport recorded .73 of an inch of rainfall during the 24-hour period ending 5 p.m. Monday.This brought the year-to-date amount to 10.44 inches, slightly above the normal rainfall for this time of year, 10.25 inches.April's rainfall came to 2.81 inches which equals just about the normal figure of 2.87 inches for the month.Last year, April had only 1.87 inches and the year's total to date was a low 4.45 inches.The most damaging of the tornadoes in northwest Texas