4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Harold moved west across south Texas on the 22nd. An area of low pressure developed over the central Gulf of Mexico on the 21st.
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper-level low pressure over a stationary frontal boundary helped to generate widespread showers and thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system remained park across Baja California through October 17. This feature interacted with plenty of moisture and resulted in periods of very heavy rain from October 15 through the 17.
Read the full account →On September 19th, a robust storm produced some hail and damaging winds in Denton County, moving into Dallas County. Later that evening, a cluster of storms developed to our west and northwest, producing some hail and damaging winds in our western counties.
Read the full account →The first in a multi-day event produced widespread large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding but the largest impacts were felt in the extreme southeastern Texas Panhandle.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →Much needed rainfall occurred over the Coastal Bend of south Texas on August 14th and 15th as an area of low pressure, that formed over the northwest Gulf of Mexico, moved inland.
Read the full account →An upper level system coincided with abundant atmospheric moisture across the Texas Panhandle on the evening of the 24th. This resulted in scattered thunderstorms that eventually grew into widespread thunderstorm activity.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system remained park across Baja California through October 17. This feature interacted with plenty of moisture and resulted in periods of very heavy rain from October 15 through the 17.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass during the late afternoon of August 11th. Storms mainly developed across the I-40 corridor and shifted south through the evening hours.
Read the full account →Following a round of severe storms and heavy rain the night prior, strong and severe thunderstorms developed late this morning over the southwest South Plains before expanding in coverage as they spread east throughout the afternoon.
Read the full account →A warm front combined with an upper level trough and deep moisture produced heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms across much of South Central Texas on October 30th and 31st. Damage surveys confirmed four tornadoes.
Read the full account →A warm front combined with an upper level trough and deep moisture produced heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms across much of South Central Texas on October 30th and 31st. Damage surveys confirmed four tornadoes.
Read the full account →A broad tropical wave originating in the western Caribbean Sea moved across the Yucatan peninsula on June 15th and 16th, 2018. The slow moving but persistent system approached the Texas coast on Sunday, June 17th before finally arriving on June 18th.
Read the full account →An upper trough was over the region with abundant low-level moisture present across West Texas. A cold front was moving southward from southwest Oklahoma and there was a nearly stationary outflow boundary across Ector County from storms the previous day.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm complex moved from the Rio Grande Plains into the Rio Grande Valley during the morning and early afternoon hours on May 19th. The slow forward speed of this complex led to heavy, and locally flooding rain across much of the lower Rio Grande Valley, where rainfall…
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