4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An upper trough moving through the Southern Plains generated scattered to numerous thunderstorms across North and Central Texas on Thursday April 20.
Read the full account →An upper level ridge was centered over the Texas Coast with an upper-low pressure system over Northern California. A dryline was across portions of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. High moisture and instability were present to the east of the dryline.
Read the full account →Very high moisture was left over South Texas on the 17th as the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill moved northward into north-central Texas. Numerous showers and thunderstorms produced flash flooding in the morning across the Victoria Crossroads and in the afternoon over the…
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 persistent flow of deep tropical moisture from the eastern Pacific ocean created several days of locally heavy rainfall across northern Hidalgo County, most of Brooks County, and portions of eastern Starr and Jim Hogg County, resulting in areas of rural/farm/ranch flooding…
Read the full account →An upper trough rotating across the Rio Grande resulted in widespread shower and thunderstorm development across South Texas during the evening hours of May 18th and continued into May 19th.
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 →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…
Read the full account →A slow-moving low pressure system drew in ample amounts of Gulf moisture on July 6th, allowing for very heavy rainfall to occur across portions of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Read the full account →The combination of an upper level disturbance crossing the southern Great Plains, upper level wind and a low level low pressure system moving east from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and prior boundaries from earlier thunderstorms north of the Rio Grande Valley and from morning…
Read the full account →The combination of an upper level disturbance crossing the southern Great Plains, upper level wind and a low level low pressure system moving east from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and prior boundaries from earlier thunderstorms north of the Rio Grande Valley and from morning…
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 →Thunderstorms developed along a slow moving cold front on the evening of Monday, April 4, aided by the arrival of an upper level disturbance. All modes of severe weather were produced across parts of primarily North Texas.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a slow moving cold front on the evening of Monday, April 4, aided by the arrival of an upper level disturbance. All modes of severe weather were produced across parts of primarily North Texas.
Read the full account →An active day of thunderstorms impacted much of North and Central Texas on November 20, triggered by the passage of a Pacific cold front and an upper trough. The day brought several instances of damaging winds, large hail, and flooding.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike caused wind damage and significant storm surge flooding across southeast Texas. Ike made landfall near Galveston, TX early in the morning on September 13th as a strong category 2 hurricane.||Sustained hurricane force winds were confined to Jefferson County, Hardin…
Read the full account →A weak cold front associated with an upper level disturbance passed through deep South Texas on the evening of August 1st into the overnight hours.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Lorena's remnants, a late-summer cold front, and an upper-level trough collectively contributed to significant thunderstorm activity across North Texas during the afternoon and evening of September 5th and into the morning of September 6th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Lorena's remnants, a late-summer cold front, and an upper-level trough collectively contributed to significant thunderstorm activity across North Texas during the afternoon and evening of September 5th and into the morning of September 6th.
Read the full account →A slow-moving summer frontal system, in conjunction with occasional disturbances embedded within the northwest flow aloft, generated multiple rounds of thunderstorms both preceding and during the Labor Day weekend.
Read the full account →The tropical wave that has been producing heavy rains over South Central Texas peaked in intensity during the early morning hours of the 6th over the Big Country and Heartland Counties of West Central Texas.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture was confined to the Brush Country over a couple of days. There was a feed of deep tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combined with a tap of moisture from the Pacific Ocean moving across Mexico.
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