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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

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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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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Flash Flood

Glasscock, 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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Flash Flood

Howard, 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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Flash Flood

Hutchinson, TX · Aug 17, 2018

High instability but low wind shear environment across the region did set up for thunderstorms to develop across portions of the Texas Panhandle. Thunderstorms that developed would be very slow moving to nearly stationary.

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Flash Flood

Hutchinson, TX · Aug 17, 2018

High instability but low wind shear environment across the region did set up for thunderstorms to develop across portions of the Texas Panhandle. Thunderstorms that developed would be very slow moving to nearly stationary.

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Flood

Hockley, TX · Oct 5, 2018

Abundant moisture and moderate instability fueled the development of scattered to numerous thunderstorms late this Friday afternoon through the overnight.

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Flood

Nueces, TX · Oct 1, 2017

Torrential rainfall fell across the western Brush Country from September 26th through the 28th. Generally, 5 to 10 inches of rain fell during the period with some areas over northern Webb County into eastern Dimmit County received from 15 to 20 inches of rain.

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Flash Flood

Hays, TX · Sep 4, 2020

The airmass over South Central Texas was very moist with high precipitable water. A weakness developed in the ridge in the mid-levels of the atmosphere above this moist boundary layer.

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Flash Flood

Hays, TX · Sep 4, 2020

The airmass over South Central Texas was very moist with high precipitable water. A weakness developed in the ridge in the mid-levels of the atmosphere above this moist boundary layer.

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Flood

Wise, TX · Apr 17, 2019

Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours as an upper level low pressure center and a dryline approached from the west. Storms continued overnight as a cold front swept across the region.

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Flood

Wise, TX · Apr 17, 2019

Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours as an upper level low pressure center and a dryline approached from the west. Storms continued overnight as a cold front swept across the region.

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Flash Flood

Coleman, TX · May 18, 2019

A highly sheared environment coupled with a very unstable airmass resulted in the development of strong tornadoes during the early morning hours of May 18. At least seven of the eight tornadoes damaged or destroyed several hundred homes across portions of West Central Texas.

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Flash Flood

Tom Green, TX · May 18, 2019

A highly sheared environment coupled with a very unstable airmass resulted in the development of strong tornadoes during the early morning hours of May 18. At least seven of the eight tornadoes damaged or destroyed several hundred homes across portions of West Central Texas.

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Flood

Coleman, TX · May 18, 2019

A highly sheared environment coupled with a very unstable airmass resulted in the development of strong tornadoes during the early morning hours of May 18. At least seven of the eight tornadoes damaged or destroyed several hundred homes across portions of West Central Texas.

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Flood

Taylor, TX · Jun 5, 2019

An upper level disturbance interacting with an unstable airmass triggered the development of a line of thunderstorms. This line of storms moved in from the west and caused damaging thunderstorms winds and a dust storm mainly along and west of a line from Anson to Robert Lee.

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Flash Flood

Travis, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Val Verde, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Kinney, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Uvalde, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Wilson, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Medina, TX · Aug 21, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Kinney, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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Flash Flood

Kinney, TX · Aug 20, 2016

Convection formed over the northern Mexican mountains during the afternoon and evening of August 20 beneath an upper level trough over the southern plains. This convection eventually formed into a mesoscale convective system as a low level jet developed overnight.

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