4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Storm Charley made landfall on the middle Texas coast during the morning on August 22nd. Luckily, damage was minimal across the area, with beach erosion accounting for the damage estimates. Tides ran 2-3 feet above predicted astronomical levels.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Charley made landfall on the middle Texas coast during the morning on August 22nd. Luckily, damage was minimal across the area, with beach erosion accounting for the damage estimates. Tides ran 2-3 feet above predicted astronomical levels.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Charley made landfall on the middle Texas coast during the morning on August 22nd. Luckily, damage was minimal across the area, with beach erosion accounting for the damage estimates. Tides ran 2-3 feet above predicted astronomical levels.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Charley made landfall on the middle Texas coast during the morning on August 22nd. Luckily, damage was minimal across the area, with beach erosion accounting for the damage estimates. Tides ran 2-3 feet above predicted astronomical levels.
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 →Numerous thunderstorms developed as a strong upper level disturbance moved through North Texas. Some of the thunderstorms were severe with the initial development of activity with large hail up to an inch in diameter.
Read the full account →An upper-level trough situated over Texas and the Southern Plains created a series of showers and storms across North Texas during the overnight hours of August 11th into August 12th, and again on the morning of August 13th.
Read the full account →A long-track complex of thunderstorms developed off of the higher terrain of eastern New Mexico and moved southeast. This complex produced severe wind gusts across the northern Permian Basin early that morning.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms across the northwestern CWA. Some of these thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall. Storms formed in association with an MCS that developed along the southern fringes of a mid/upper level low.
Read the full account →An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →The young autumn's first cooling front arrived late on October 5th. Preceding the front, a rapidly developing cluster of strong thunderstorms formed in Willacy and Cameron County, aided by interaction with the sea breeze.
Read the full account →Tropical showers and thunderstorms redeveloped in bands to the west and northwest of weakening Tropical Storm Frances on Friday. Rain amounts were less than on Thursday night, but averaged from 2 to 3 inches with isolated totals near 4 inches.
Read the full account →Another round of numerous thunderstorms and showers moved over western north Texas during the morning hours of August 16, and dropped rainfall totals of 2.5 to 6 inches.
Read the full account →Rainfall of between 2 and 3 inches fell over Comal, Guadalupe and northern Bexar Counties. Isolated totals of 4 inches were reported in Guadalupe County and in the northern part of San Antonio in Bexar County.
Read the full account →A closed upper low pressure system continued to spin across New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of May 18th, ejecting a shortwave trough northeast across Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma.
Read the full account →A shortwave trough progressed east across North Texas during the morning of May 25th, with large scale ascent and a strong southerly low level jet contributing to a complex of showers and thunderstorms that progressed east into portions of Northeast Texas during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Warm, humid, and unstable conditions were in place across the Four State Region on May 9th, ahead of a cold front and attendant shortwave trough that traversed the Southern Plains during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Warm, humid, and unstable conditions were in place across the Four State Region on May 9th, ahead of a cold front and attendant shortwave trough that traversed the Southern Plains during the afternoon.
Read the full account →Warm, humid, and unstable conditions were in place across the Four State Region on May 9th, ahead of a cold front and attendant shortwave trough that traversed the Southern Plains during the afternoon.
Read the full account →A closed upper low pressure system continued to spin across New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of May 18th, ejecting a shortwave trough northeast across Northeast Texas into Southeast Oklahoma.
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