4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Thunderstorms repeatedly dropped heavy rainfall over Gillespie and Kerr counties early on Sunday afternoon. Rain totals over the two counties averaged between 3 and 4 inches, with up to 5 inches reported at Hunt in western Kerr County and as much as 7 inches at Fredericksburg…
Read the full account →Thunderstorm complexes which developed across the Hill Country and Northwest Texas during the afternoons of April 23 and 24 propagated southeast across North and Central Texas each night into the following mornings.
Read the full account →Thunderstorm complexes which developed across the Hill Country and Northwest Texas during the afternoons of April 23 and 24 propagated southeast across North and Central Texas each night into the following mornings.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across the Permian Basin before stalling during the afternoon. Several intense supercells formed along and behind this front, producing very large hail. Another area of thunderstorms developed near Fort Stockton.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across the Permian Basin before stalling during the afternoon. Several intense supercells formed along and behind this front, producing very large hail. Another area of thunderstorms developed near Fort Stockton.
Read the full account →A cold front moved across the Permian Basin before stalling during the afternoon. Several intense supercells formed along and behind this front, producing very large hail. Another area of thunderstorms developed near Fort Stockton.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and high winds along with very heavy rainfall which resulted in flash flooding across the central and southwestern Texas panhandle during the evening hours.
Read the full account →Training rains caused significant flooding throughout the Houston metropolitan area. Many bayous/streams were overbanks for much of the day. Widespread street flooding occurred with HPD receiving 675 flood related calls from 6 AM to 3 PM.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms associated with the approach of an offshore low pressure system produced several tornadoes on the evening of January 8 and the early morning of January 9.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms associated with the approach of an offshore low pressure system produced several tornadoes on the evening of January 8 and the early morning of January 9.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms associated with the approach of an offshore low pressure system produced several tornadoes on the evening of January 8 and the early morning of January 9.
Read the full account →Severe high precipitation supercells developed across north central |Texas the evening of May 8th and moved slowly eastward just south of the Red River during the pre dawn hours of May 9th.
Read the full account →The combination of a southward advancing cold front, warm air advection over the cold front, and an approaching shortwave aided in an explosive period that began the afternoon of May 2nd and continued into the morning hours of May 3rd.
Read the full account →The combination of a southward advancing cold front, warm air advection over the cold front, and an approaching shortwave aided in an explosive period that began the afternoon of May 2nd and continued into the morning hours of May 3rd.
Read the full account →The combination of a southward advancing cold front, warm air advection over the cold front, and an approaching shortwave aided in an explosive period that began the afternoon of May 2nd and continued into the morning hours of May 3rd.
Read the full account →The broad circulation of poorly organized Tropical Storm Grace made landfall between Port O'Connor and Freeport on August 31st. Grace was the second tropical cyclone to affect this portion of the Texas coast in less than two months (Hurricane Claudette moved through the Port…
Read the full account →This flash flood event was from the remnants of Tropical Storm Grace. Grace's broad and poorly defined center moved inland between Port O'Connor and Freeport on the last day of August.
Read the full account →This flash flood event was from the remnants of Tropical Storm Grace. Grace's broad and poorly defined center moved inland between Port O'Connor and Freeport on the last day of August.
Read the full account →A deep trough along the Rocky Mountains and a stationary front across West Central Texas combined to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →A warm-core low pressure system slowly moved along the Interstate 35 corridor and provided a focus for deep-tropical convection to develop across the southeastern portions of North Texas.
Read the full account →A warm-core low pressure system slowly moved along the Interstate 35 corridor and provided a focus for deep-tropical convection to develop across the southeastern portions of North Texas.
Read the full account →Storms developed along a dry line which moved into north Texas during the afternoon hours on the 18th. Rich Gulf moisture and ample instability helped the storms develop further as they encountered a warm front to the east.
Read the full account →Storms developed along a dry line which moved into north Texas during the afternoon hours on the 18th. Rich Gulf moisture and ample instability helped the storms develop further as they encountered a warm front to the east.
Read the full account →An upper-level trough remained nearly stationary over the western US resulting in southwesterly flow over Texas. A stationary boundary stretched across central Texas with anomalously moist air south of the boundary.
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