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

Flash Flood

Cherokee, TX · May 18, 2019

A shortwave trough entered the Southern Plains during the morning hours of May 18th, and began to take on a negative tilt as it approached East Texas during the afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Sabine, TX · May 19, 2019

A shortwave trough entered the Southern Plains during the morning hours of May 18th, and began to take on a negative tilt as it approached East Texas during the afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Sabine, TX · May 19, 2019

A shortwave trough entered the Southern Plains during the morning hours of May 18th, and began to take on a negative tilt as it approached East Texas during the afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Wood, TX · Jun 20, 2019

A weakening complex of showers and thunderstorms entered portions of Northeast Texas during the pre-dawn hours of June 19th, but a strong southwesterly low level jet feeding into these storms interacted with adequate instability still in place for these storms to re-intensify…

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Flash Flood

Potter, TX · Jun 1, 2019

An upper level disturbance moved east across eastern New Mexico into the western Panhandle the afternoon of the 1st. Given this system, favorable winds and surface moisture, severe thunderstorms were able to develop.

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Flash Flood

Swisher, TX · May 7, 2019

By 1400 CST on the seventh, another consecutive day of severe weather was underway across the South Plains of West Texas. A dryline mixed into West Texas and stalled around the US Highway 385 corridor.

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Flash Flood

Lynn, TX · May 5, 2019

Very strong instability developed across the South Plains this afternoon east of a sharp dryline. Scattered thunderstorms developed along the length of this dryline by 1600 CST and slowly matured into severe thunderstorms, including supercells.

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Flash Flood

Rusk, TX · May 18, 2019

A shortwave trough entered the Southern Plains during the morning hours of May 18th, and began to take on a negative tilt as it approached East Texas during the afternoon and evening.

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Flash Flood

Smith, TX · May 1, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Gregg, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Gregg, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Gregg, TX · May 1, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Smith, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Smith, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Smith, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Rusk, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Titus, TX · May 8, 2019

A strong upper level trough of low pressure extending from the Intermountain West into the Four Corners Region energized the southwest flow aloft across the Southern Plains during much of the day on May 8th, with a strong low level jet sustaining a mesoscale convective complex…

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Flash Flood

Potter, TX · May 7, 2019

May 7th, 2019 was a very active day for significant severe weather which lasted from early morning into the evening. A combination of an approaching strong upper level storm system that moved across Arizona into New Mexico, moderate to high levels of wind shear and moderate to…

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Flash Flood

Rusk, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Harrison, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Rusk, TX · May 2, 2019

A deep southerly flow increased across much of the Ark-La-Tex during the daytime hours of April 30th through May 1st, ahead of a slow moving upper level trough that drifted east into the Southern Plains from the Four Corners Region.

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Flash Flood

Cass, TX · May 8, 2019

A strong upper level trough of low pressure extending from the Intermountain West into the Four Corners Region energized the southwest flow aloft across the Southern Plains during much of the day on May 8th, with a strong low level jet sustaining a mesoscale convective complex…

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Flash Flood

Harrison, TX · May 9, 2019

A strong upper level trough of low pressure extending from the Intermountain West into the Four Corners Region energized the southwest flow aloft across the Southern Plains during much of the day on May 8th, with a strong low level jet sustaining a mesoscale convective complex…

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Flash Flood

Panola, TX · May 9, 2019

A strong upper level trough of low pressure extending from the Intermountain West into the Four Corners Region energized the southwest flow aloft across the Southern Plains during much of the day on May 8th, with a strong low level jet sustaining a mesoscale convective complex…

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