4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
May 22nd - 24th, 2020 was an active few days with two main time frames of severe weather, and scattered severe weather reports punctuated elsewhere within these few days.
Read the full account →Hurricane Harvey moved onshore as a Category 4 hurricane over San Jose Island east of Rockport during the late evening of August 25th. Harvey moved inland entering southern DeWitt County during the morning of August 26th as a Category 1 hurricane.
Read the full account →Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas during the evening of August 25th. The storm then weakened to a tropical storm and slowed, looping back and tracking over SE Texas then back over the Gulf of Mexico making a second landfall along the Louisiana…
Read the full account →Abundant moisture, in combination with strong daytime heating, provided the fuel for robust thunderstorm development along a quasi-stationary front located across the southern Texas Panhandle late on the afternoon of the 31st.
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper trough combined with a stalling front, and a large swath of tropical moisture, to produce record and near-record rainfall across parts of North Texas late August 21 through August 22.
Read the full account →A broad tropical wave originating in the western Caribbean Sea moved across the Yucatan peninsula on June 15th and 16th, 2018. The slow moving but persistent system approached the Texas coast on Sunday, June 17th before finally arriving on June 18th.
Read the full account →A broad tropical wave originating in the western Caribbean Sea moved across the Yucatan peninsula on June 15th and 16th, 2018. The slow moving but persistent system approached the Texas coast on Sunday, June 17th before finally arriving on June 18th.
Read the full account →A cold front moved into a very moist atmosphere and generated showers and thunderstorms some of which produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding.
Read the full account →Multiple days of heavy rain fell across the Sabine River Valley causing massive flooding in the basin. Across the Toledo Bend Reservoir rainfall amounts averaged 15 to 20 inches.
Read the full account →On June 3 and 4, a cold front and a dryline served as focal points for thunderstorm development across North and Central Texas. These storms were associated with several instances of severe weather and flooding.
Read the full account →Imelda moved inland southwest of Galveston, Texas as a minimal tropical storm then meandered over Southeast Texas over the next couple days while weakening.
Read the full account →A disturbance in the quasi-zonal/northwesterly flow aloft, a dryline, and a cold front moving across the northern Permian Basin allowed for the development of scattered thunderstorms across Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.
Read the full account →Major Hurricane Harvey impacted the Middle Texas coast on August 25th and 26th. Harvey was the first category 4 hurricane to strike Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961.
Read the full account →A tropical wave moved into the Caribbean in early October and became a tropical depression by the 5th. The system quickly gained strength and obtained category 4 status before shear weakened it back to a category 2.
Read the full account →A nearby trough, coupled with a very moist airmass, led to the development of a line of showers and thunderstorms in New Mexico during the morning of the 13th.
Read the full account →Widespread flash flooding developed along Johnson's Draw and the Devil's River in response to very heavy rainfall with accumulations of up to 5 inches. Flash flooding began in the city of Del Rio shortly after midnight.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms began reforming across the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to New Braunfels near sunrise, and by mid-morning, had produced an additional rainfall averaging 1 to 2 inches from San Antonio and New Braunfels southeastward into the Seguin and Floresville…
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper trough combined with a stalling front, and a large swath of tropical moisture, to produce record and near-record rainfall across parts of North Texas late August 21 through August 22.
Read the full account →An upper level system coincided with abundant atmospheric moisture across the Texas Panhandle on the evening of the 24th. This resulted in scattered thunderstorms that eventually grew into widespread thunderstorm activity.
Read the full account →A shortwave trough, dryline, and Pacific front all worked together to produce multiple rounds of thunderstorms Friday April 26 through Sunday April 28. All modes of severe weather took place across the region, along with multiple instances of flash flooding.
Read the full account →The eye of Hurricane Ike moved ashore in Galveston County near the city of Galveston. At landfall, Ike had a central pressure of 951.6 mb, as measured at Galveston Pleasure Pier, and a maximum estimated storm surge of 17 feet over portions of Chambers County and the Bolivar…
Read the full account →On the evening of May 16, a derecho moved into SE TX. This resulted in extensive wind damage across much of the Greater Houston area, including much of Downtown Houston. Maximum wind gusts were estimated to have reached over 100 mph.
Read the full account →An upper level shortwave trough moved around the longwave low over the Four Corners region. This upper distubance interacted with a surface boundary moving northward as a warm front from South Texas into a very moist airmass.
Read the full account →Another complex of thunderstorms moved southeast through North and Central Texas during the day on May 30, producing scattered wind damage and severe hail along with some flash flooding.
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