BigA wrote:I definitely could see a TS Charley 1998 scenario with this system. (And by that I mean, tropical depression forms, becomes tropical storm, makes landfall in Texas w/o a lot of fanfare, but causes inland flooding).
I think the inland flooding is a huge potential here BigA. I think you are spot on with that concern. The HPC kind of bares that out... although I think we will see isolated higher amounts develop:

Edit to add the following material:
Snippet from NWS Brownsville AFD: "TOTAL RAIN
AMOUNTS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS ARE FORECAST TO BE FROM 2 TO
4 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS AS HIGH AS 6 INCHES."
And from Corpus AFD: "NOW EXPECTING
TOTAL EVENT ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES AREA WIDE FROM TODAY
THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 7 POSSIBLE. "