This paper will present a verification of model rainfall forecasts for U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones during the period 1998-2003 from the GFDL, NCEP/GFS and NCEP/Eta models. Results will be presented for approximately 28 storms that made landfall during that period. Results will be compared and contrasted for all 3 models and will be compared to forecasts from the benchmark statistical / climatological rainfall model (R-CLIPER) for all of the same cases. Validation will be performed using rain gauge estimates as well as gridded rainfall analyses from the National Precipitation Validation Unit datasets.