4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An upper level trough was approaching the region with upper lift increasing ahead of the trough. A lee surface trough was present across West Texas and eastern New Mexico with a dryline across the Permian Basin.
Read the full account →An upper low pressure system situated to the west brought large scale lift to north Texas. Southerly winds brought deep rich moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. These and other factors caused numerous thunderstorms to develop.
Read the full account →An upper low pressure system situated to the west brought large scale lift to north Texas. Southerly winds brought deep rich moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. These and other factors caused numerous thunderstorms to develop.
Read the full account →A small but potent slow-moving thunderstorm dropped rainfall rates of 2 inches per hour for about 2 hours in a small area between Olmito and Rancho Viejo, about 11 miles north-northwest of downtown Brownsville.
Read the full account →After slamming into the Gulf coast, Hurricane Ike weakened slowly as it moved north. Several counties in east Texas received damaging winds from the storm. Sustained winds of 25-35 MPH with gusts up to 50 MPH were reported for several hours as T.S. Ike moved east of the area.
Read the full account →After slamming into the Gulf coast, Hurricane Ike weakened slowly as it moved north. Several counties in east Texas received damaging winds from the storm. Sustained winds of 25-35 MPH with gusts up to 50 MPH were reported for several hours as T.S. Ike moved east of the area.
Read the full account →After slamming into the Gulf coast, Hurricane Ike weakened slowly as it moved north. Several counties in east Texas received damaging winds from the storm. Sustained winds of 25-35 MPH with gusts up to 50 MPH were reported for several hours as T.S. Ike moved east of the area.
Read the full account →Periodic storms ahead of and along a slow-moving cold front produced mainly hail across North Texas March 4th through 6th. A short-lived landspout was observed in Ellis County near Forreston on the 5th.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms continued to erupt in an unstable environment behind the MCS that moved through north Texas on the 10th. Training cells moved across the northern portions of the Metroplex and Dallas County resulting in significant flash flooding.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms that developed just before midnight produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall across the two counties. Maximum rainfall amounts approached 5 inches across the northern part of DeWitt County and the western part of Lavaca County.
Read the full account →A southern plains shortwave disturbance moving into a very moistened central and eastern Texas environment allowed clusters of central Texas thunderstorms to form and move eastward.
Read the full account →Slow moving severe thunderstorms produced hail and very heavy rainfall which resulted in flash flooding over the extreme western and southwestern Texas Panhandle during the late evening and early morning hours.
Read the full account →An upper level trough was moving over the Rocky Mountains, and a cold front was across the northwest Permian Basin. The upper level jet stream over the region provided additional lift.
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level storm system combined with abundant low level moisture to produce widespread flooding across the Northwest Hill Country, Northern Edwards Plateau, and Heartland.
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level storm system combined with abundant low level moisture to produce widespread flooding across the Northwest Hill Country, Northern Edwards Plateau, and Heartland.
Read the full account →A slow moving upper level storm system combined with abundant low level moisture to produce widespread flooding across the Northwest Hill Country, Northern Edwards Plateau, and Heartland.
Read the full account →A potent supercell developed during the afternoon and moved eastward along a cold front. This storm was responsible for hail as large as baseballs as it moved across Jack, Stephens, Palo Pinto, Parker, and Tarrant Counties.
Read the full account →The slow moving tropical wave dumped heavy rains for the second night in a row over the Heartland counties of Brown and Coleman counties. Some reports of up to 10 inches in the two day period were noted in these areas.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary frontal boundary was located across the northern Permian Basin, and a dryline was present across far west Texas into southeast New Mexico.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary frontal boundary was located across the northern Permian Basin, and a dryline was present across far west Texas into southeast New Mexico.
Read the full account →With soils over Lavaca and DeWitt Counties still saturated from heavy rainfall in the past two days, flash flooding redeveloped very quickly near noon times as showers and thunderstorms formed in Lavaca County and spread into DeWitt County.
Read the full account →With soils over Lavaca and DeWitt Counties still saturated from heavy rainfall in the past two days, flash flooding redeveloped very quickly near noon times as showers and thunderstorms formed in Lavaca County and spread into DeWitt County.
Read the full account →General 5 inch rains falling across the western part of Bexar County and the eastern part of Medina County, caused widespread flash flooding. The heaviest rain totals were near 7 inchesin the southwestern part of Bexar County, where numerous vehicles became trapped in high…
Read the full account →A large outdoor music festival, Rock the Desert, was in progress when these storms inundated the Midland area. The festival, which had 11,000 attendees this year, takes place each year at a location across Farm to Market Road 1788.
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