4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms moved eastward out of the plains of New Mexico and progressed across the western and central South Plains during the evening hours of the 3rd. One storm within the complex produced large hail over Yoakum County.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
Read the full account →Showers forming across South Central Texas moved into Gonzales County in the mid afternoon, and produced a general 2 inch rainfall across the county. The heaviest rain fell in the south part of the county, along and south of Hwy97 and along and southwest of Alternate 90.
Read the full account →A back door cold front moved into the Rio Grande Valley along with being on the tail end of an elongated upper trough extending from the Great Lakes into the Borderland.
Read the full account →July 1, 2001 Episode NarrativeA large complex of rain and thunderstorms moved into north Texas from Oklahoma in the overnight hours and brought copious rainfall amounts to the area, generally north of Interstate 20.
Read the full account →The combination of very deep tropical moisture with a slow-moving warm front and the approach of a strong upper level trough resulted in excessive rainfall across Harris and various surrounding counties.
Read the full account →A slow moving tropical upper level system brought rainfall to north Texas for 5-6 days. Total rainfall accumulations across north Texas ranged from less than an inch to nearly 15 inches. Most locations picked up 2-10 inches over the entire event.
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 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 →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 →A weak upper level disturbance rotating around high pressure across the Deep South combined with very warm and humid air to produce scattered to numerous late afternoon thunderstorms across the Lower Rio Grande Valley on April 16th, some which produced flooding rains.
Read the full account →An impulse of upper level energy provided enhanced lift along and near and old frontal boundary from the Brush Country northward to the Texas Hill Country, generating clusters of very slow moving storms in Webb, Duval, and Jim Hogg County during the late afternoon and evening…
Read the full account →A slow moving tropical upper level system brought rainfall to north Texas for 5-6 days. Total rainfall accumulations across north Texas ranged from less than an inch to nearly 15 inches. Most locations picked up 2-10 inches over the entire event.
Read the full account →A mid-level shortwave trough moved into southwest Texas on this day and when combined with persistent moist upslope flow, resulted in thunderstorm development across southwest Texas. Weak flow through the middle column of the atmosphere resulted in slow moving storms.
Read the full account →Flooding along the Sabinal and Frio Rivers The Sabinal River crested at 14.7 feet Sunday morning, where flood stage is 12 feet, producing moderate lowland flooding from above Sabinal to the Frio River confluence.
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