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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.

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Wood, TX · Feb 22, 2018

An upper level low pressure system progressed east southeast from the Pacific Northwest into the Central and Southern Rockies on the morning of February 20th, reinforcing a cold front slowly southeast into Southeast Oklahoma, Northeast Texas, and Southwest Arkansas during the…

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Sherman, TX · Jun 22, 2018

An upper level disturbance helped bring the mountain thunderstorms across the area. Decent wind shear and instability was available to support strong to severe storms. One of the storms became severe with 1 hail reported. This occurred early in the morning on the 22nd.

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Taylor, TX · May 24, 2018

On May 24 an isolated severe storm formed near Abilene and produced damaging winds and flash flooding in the city. On May 25, an isolated gargantuan, southwest moving supercell, moved southwest across southern Brown County, San Saba County and Mason County during the evening…

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Hutchinson, TX · May 17, 2018

Perturbation off the mean 500 mb flow downstream of a small amplitude ridge axis provided a late morning round of thunderstorms for the northeast TX/OK Panhandles. As a result, some severe criteria hail was reported.

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Randall, TX · May 19, 2018

Residual outflow boundaries from the previous day's convection in-conjunction with low level moisture and weak steering flow allowed for thunderstorms to develop.

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Randall, TX · May 19, 2018

Residual outflow boundaries from the previous day's convection in-conjunction with low level moisture and weak steering flow allowed for thunderstorms to develop.

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Randall, TX · May 19, 2018

Residual outflow boundaries from the previous day's convection in-conjunction with low level moisture and weak steering flow allowed for thunderstorms to develop.

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Hansford, TX · May 23, 2018

Theta-e ridge axis coupled with a surface boundary leftover across the region helped to trigger thunderstorms across the region. 00Z RAOB data on the 24th showed an abundant of surface moisture with PWAT values over 1 inch and relatively weak surface and mid level flow.

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Hemphill, TX · May 23, 2018

Theta-e ridge axis coupled with a surface boundary leftover across the region helped to trigger thunderstorms across the region. 00Z RAOB data on the 24th showed an abundant of surface moisture with PWAT values over 1 inch and relatively weak surface and mid level flow.

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Nueces, TX · Jun 19, 2018

A tropical wave moved into South Texas on June 18th. A series of upper level disturbances interacted with this wave throughout its life cycle.

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Nueces, TX · Jun 20, 2018

A tropical wave moved into South Texas on June 18th. A series of upper level disturbances interacted with this wave throughout its life cycle.

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Nueces, TX · Jun 20, 2018

A tropical wave moved into South Texas on June 18th. A series of upper level disturbances interacted with this wave throughout its life cycle.

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Jim Wells, TX · Jun 20, 2018

A tropical wave moved into South Texas on June 18th. A series of upper level disturbances interacted with this wave throughout its life cycle.

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Smith, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Smith, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Gregg, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Gregg, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Gregg, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Angelina, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Angelina, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Nacogdoches, TX · Dec 27, 2018

A vigorous upper level trough developed over the Four Corners Region on December 26th, before taking on a negative tilt as it ejected northeast across Northwest and North Texas and much of Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 27th.

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Harrison, TX · Dec 8, 2018

A weak surface trough developed from the Texas Hill Country into Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana during the daytime hours of December 7th, which was further enhanced as a developing warm front ahead of a strong upper level trough that translated east across much of…

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Cass, TX · Dec 8, 2018

A weak surface trough developed from the Texas Hill Country into Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana during the daytime hours of December 7th, which was further enhanced as a developing warm front ahead of a strong upper level trough that translated east across much of…

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Red River, TX · Dec 8, 2018

A weak surface trough developed from the Texas Hill Country into Deep East Texas and Northcentral Louisiana during the daytime hours of December 7th, which was further enhanced as a developing warm front ahead of a strong upper level trough that translated east across much of…

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