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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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Refugio, TX · Mar 9, 2016

A slow moving upper level low along with plentiful moisture and a strong low level jet produced strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall over portions of South Texas during the late evening of March 8th and early morning hours of March 9th.

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Houston, TX · May 26, 2016

Strong upper level disturbances combined with above average moisture levels and favorable upper level wind patterns to produce a round of severe thunderstorms that eventually trained and produced excessive rainfall and flash flood during the afternoon hours of the 26th and on…

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Potter, TX · Oct 2, 2016

This was a very marginal event in terms of parameters coming together. However, there was an axis of the moisture convergence in the low to mid levels of the atmosphere with precipitable water values right over north central TX Panhandle and OK Panhandle of over one inch and a…

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Galveston, TX · Apr 18, 2016

A slow moving upper low over the Southwestern U.S. combined with near record level moisture aided in producing extremely heavy rainfall and devastating flooding over portions of Harris, Waller and Fort Bend Counties.

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Palo Pinto, TX · Mar 7, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Denton, TX · Mar 7, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Denton, TX · Mar 8, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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McLennan, TX · Mar 8, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Hamilton, TX · Mar 8, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Rains, TX · Mar 9, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Van Zandt, TX · Mar 9, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Henderson, TX · Mar 9, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Anderson, TX · Mar 9, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Floyd, TX · Apr 16, 2016

In advance of a slow-moving upper low in the Four Corners, a dryline over the eastern South Plains focused thunderstorm development by early afternoon. As these storms moved northeast and off the Caprock, they intensified with some becoming supercells.

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Cottle, TX · Apr 16, 2016

In advance of a slow-moving upper low in the Four Corners, a dryline over the eastern South Plains focused thunderstorm development by early afternoon. As these storms moved northeast and off the Caprock, they intensified with some becoming supercells.

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Lamb, TX · Jun 1, 2016

Northeast of a slow moving upper low near El Paso, a broad upper trough overspread the South Plains this day. Abundant moisture and very weak wind shear led to several lines and clusters of nearly stationary showers and storms with torrential rainfall.

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Bailey, TX · Jun 1, 2016

Northeast of a slow moving upper low near El Paso, a broad upper trough overspread the South Plains this day. Abundant moisture and very weak wind shear led to several lines and clusters of nearly stationary showers and storms with torrential rainfall.

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Palo Pinto, TX · Mar 7, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Van Zandt, TX · Mar 9, 2016

This was a multi-day severe weather and flood event. It started with a large-scale upper level low pressure system which deepened over the Four-Corners region. Moisture and instability increased in advance of this system.

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Hale, TX · Aug 23, 2016

Numerous slow-moving thunderstorms developed late this afternoon from near Levelland northeast to Floydada, before expanding into the northern Rolling Plains after sunset.

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Childress, TX · Oct 6, 2016

Around 1400 CST, a dryline focused discrete thunderstorm development in the far southeast Texas Panhandle. Very strong instability with mixed layer CAPEs around 3500 J/kg allowed these storms to intensify with supercell structures observed at times.

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Cottle, TX · Oct 6, 2016

Around 1400 CST, a dryline focused discrete thunderstorm development in the far southeast Texas Panhandle. Very strong instability with mixed layer CAPEs around 3500 J/kg allowed these storms to intensify with supercell structures observed at times.

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Crosby, TX · Nov 2, 2016

Rich moisture with dewpoints in the 60s streamed north ahead of a cold front this afternoon. Around 1400 CST, scattered multicell thunderstorms developed from the southwest South Plains northeast through the far southeast Panhandle and moved east into the Rolling Plains through…

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Flash Flood

Midland, TX · May 30, 2016

An upper trough was off the Pacific coast and was moving inland over California and Arizona. This put West Texas and southeast New Mexico under southwest winds aloft. A dryline was backed up against the mountains leaving good moisture with 50 degree dewpoints off to the east.

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