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Texas Flood Stories

4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

San Patricio, TX · Oct 14, 2021

Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms lingered over the Coastal Bend on the morning of the 14th as an upper level disturbance interacted with deep tropical moisture over the region.

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Oct 14, 2021

Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms lingered over the Coastal Bend on the morning of the 14th as an upper level disturbance interacted with deep tropical moisture over the region.

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Oct 14, 2021

Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms lingered over the Coastal Bend on the morning of the 14th as an upper level disturbance interacted with deep tropical moisture over the region.

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Oct 14, 2021

Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms lingered over the Coastal Bend on the morning of the 14th as an upper level disturbance interacted with deep tropical moisture over the region.

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Oct 14, 2021

Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms lingered over the Coastal Bend on the morning of the 14th as an upper level disturbance interacted with deep tropical moisture over the region.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Midland, TX · May 9, 2007

A dryline extended southward across the eastern Permian Basin and the lower Trans-Pecos region. Showers and thunderstorms initiated along the dryline and produced heavy rainfall.

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Flash Flood

San Jacinto, TX · Sep 18, 2014

A vicinity western shortwave disturbance provided enough lift within a very moist and unstable late morning through afternoon air mass to produce clustering thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Scurry, TX · Jun 30, 2023

A potent shortwave trough was ejecting into the southern Great Plains by evening. This resulted in the development of a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms from the Stockton Plateau to the Permian Basin.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Randall, TX · Aug 29, 2003

Thunderstorms over the south central Texas panhandle produced very heavy rainfall which caused flash flooding in the Hunsley Hills section of the city of Canyon. Cars were reported stranded with barricades being put up.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Midland, TX · Aug 1, 2002

An active severe weather episode unfolded across the central and western Permian Basin...and southeast New Mexico during the evening of the 1st. Several damaging microbursts affected the area. Flash flooding along with intense and damaging lightnin, accompanied the storms.

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Refugio, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

San Patricio, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Aransas, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

San Patricio, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Nueces, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Aransas, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood

Duval, TX · Jul 8, 2021

The multi-day heavy rain event across the Coastal Bend continued on the 8th as the low pressure system remained nearly stationary. Bands of showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding over much of San Patricio and Nueces mainly during the…

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Flash Flood$25K damage

Denton, TX · May 30, 2007

A convective system which moved through Oklahoma arrived in north Texas around daybreak on the 30th. Numerous reports of large hail and wind damage were recieved as well as flash flooding.

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Flash Flood

Hidalgo, TX · May 16, 2020

On May 16th, a shortwave trough moved eastward across Texas providing an opportunity for thunderstorms to develop in a very unstable and moist environment.

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Flash Flood

Ector, TX · May 16, 2024

A positively tilted shortwave trough lifting out of the Four Corners and a stalled cold front over the Permian Basin aided in afternoon thunderstorm development. Numerous thunderstorms formed along and north of the cold front and became an intense squall line with damaging winds.

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Flash Flood

Midland, TX · May 16, 2024

A positively tilted shortwave trough lifting out of the Four Corners and a stalled cold front over the Permian Basin aided in afternoon thunderstorm development. Numerous thunderstorms formed along and north of the cold front and became an intense squall line with damaging winds.

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Flash Flood

Midland, TX · May 16, 2024

A positively tilted shortwave trough lifting out of the Four Corners and a stalled cold front over the Permian Basin aided in afternoon thunderstorm development. Numerous thunderstorms formed along and north of the cold front and became an intense squall line with damaging winds.

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