4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
For the second consecutve day, upper level disturbances rotating around a large upper level low positioned across California and Nevada contributed to scattered thunderstorms development across portions of the Panhandles.
Read the full account →With a highly unstable airmass in place, a meandering front, a dryline, and a shortwave trough all worked together to generate multiple rounds of thunderstorms May 23 and 24.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system was over the Arizona and New Mexico border. There was a stationary front across the area which provided additional lift over West Texas. Abundant moisture was continuing to move into the region.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system was over the Arizona and New Mexico border. There was a stationary front across the area which provided additional lift over West Texas. Abundant moisture was continuing to move into the region.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system was over the Arizona and New Mexico border. There was a stationary front across the area which provided additional lift over West Texas. Abundant moisture was continuing to move into the region.
Read the full account →Moisture from Hurricane Patricia, additional lift from the slowly east���moving bands, and the approach of a front/wind shift from the ranchlands combined to produce a two hour period of blinding rains across most of Willacy, with the highest totals once again in the San…
Read the full account →A tropical wave moved into South Texas on June 18th. A series of upper level disturbances interacted with this wave throughout its life cycle.
Read the full account →Moisture from Hurricane Patricia, additional lift from the slowly east���moving bands, and the approach of a front/wind shift from the ranchlands combined to produce a two hour period of blinding rains across most of Willacy, with the highest totals once again in the San…
Read the full account →An area of low pressure over the western Caribbean Sea on September 9th moved west into the Bay of Campeche by the 11th. The low pressure area strengthened to become Tropical Storm Nicholas over the southern Gulf of Mexico on the morning of the 12th.
Read the full account →Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms occurred the weekend of July 12, influenced by remnant outflow boundaries, a stalled front, and a slow-moving upper low.
Read the full account →Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms occurred the weekend of July 12, influenced by remnant outflow boundaries, a stalled front, and a slow-moving upper low.
Read the full account →Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms occurred the weekend of July 12, influenced by remnant outflow boundaries, a stalled front, and a slow-moving upper low.
Read the full account →A pair of shortwave troughs generated two rounds of thunderstorms; one on May 11 and the other on May 12. Most storms occurred on Sunday as the second and stronger disturbance moved overhead.
Read the full account →An upper trough draped across the central and eastern U.S. and a stalled front over Central Texas combined to generated scattered showers and thunderstorms July 21 through July 23.
Read the full account →A shortwave that turned into a baggy trough over eastern Texas provided Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley with several rounds of showers and storms June 3rd through June 5th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season and made landfall on the lower Texas coast north of Port Mansfield on the afternoon of the 25th. Hanna was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season and made landfall on the lower Texas coast north of Port Mansfield on the afternoon of the 25th. Hanna was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season and made landfall on the lower Texas coast north of Port Mansfield on the afternoon of the 25th. Hanna was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey.
Read the full account →Hurricane Hanna was the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Basin hurricane season and made landfall on the lower Texas coast north of Port Mansfield on the afternoon of the 25th. Hanna was the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey.
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 complicated weather pattern developed over South Central Texas when a dryline and cold front moved out of West Texas as an upper level low moved into the Central Plains. At the same time the remnants of Pacific Hurricane Pamela moved across northern Mexico.
Read the full account →As the tropical disturbance moves west into the Brush Country on the 15th, bands of showers and thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall. This caused flash flooding in the Laredo area and over portions of the Brush Country.
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