Which hurricane set the U.S. record for the highest rainfall from a single storm?

Which hurricane set the U.S. record for the highest rainfall from a single storm? Hurricane Harvey set the record, dropping 60.58 inches of rain at Nederland, Texas, in 2017. That total made Harvey the wettest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the United States.

Harvey reached Category 4 strength before making landfall on the Texas coast near peak intensity on August 25, 2017. After weakening over land, the storm stalled near the coast and repeatedly drew tropical moisture inland. Its slow movement allowed torrential rain to continue across southeastern Texas for several days.

The flooding was especially severe around Houston, where many locations received more than 40 inches of rain. More than 30,000 people were displaced and over 17,000 rescues were conducted. Harvey’s record concerns storm-total rainfall across the United States; it does not hold the separate national record for the most rain in a single 24-hour period, which belongs to Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979.