4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An upper level low pressure system worked its way slowly east across Texas the weekend of June 21-22. A combination of abundant moisture and the slow movement of the system generated localized areas of heavy rain and flash flooding.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective vortex near Laredo brought thunderstorms into South Central Texas. The airmass was very moist and some storms produced heavy rain the led to flash flooding.
Read the full account →An incoming short wave provided ample lift of a very moist air mass to produce several hours of rainfall over Jefferson County. 8 to 12 inches of rain fell which caused flooding.
Read the full account →An approaching upper level system and front, combined with seasonably high moisture content, set up the ingredients for a heavy rain event in the North Texas area.
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.
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.
Read the full account →A positively tilted shortwave trough lifting out of the Four Corners and a stalled cold front over the Permian Basin aided in afternoon thunderstorm development. Numerous thunderstorms formed along and north of the cold front and became an intense squall line with damaging winds.
Read the full account →Almost 5 inches of rain fell across much of Gillespie County late on the evening of the 14th and through the early morning of the 15th. This rainfall caused flash flooding along the Pedernales River as well as across much of central Gillespie County.
Read the full account →Additional heavy rainfall of 3 to 5 inches across the county caused the very rapid redevelopment of widespread flash flooding across the county. Most roads were closed through the early morning hours.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms trained over the eastern parts of San Patricio County during the afternoon on the 9th and over Aransas and eastern Calhoun Counties on the morning of the 10th. The storms produced very heavy rainfall with amounts between 3 to 5 inches.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a Pacific cold front as it and an upper level trough swept through the Plains on Christmas Eve 2024. The system produce a few severe storms across Central Texas and flash flooding in parts of North Texas.
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 →A cut off upper low over West Texas and a stalled frontal boundary over Southeast Texas produced multiple days of very heavy rainfall over the region. Widespread flash flooding occurred across the area with totals ranging from 5 to 20 inches.
Read the full account →During the summer of 2008, monsoon rainfall filled reservoirs across northern Mexico. In late August 2008, releases out of La Boquilla, Frank Madera, and Luis Leon Reservoirs were increased to lower water levels in those reservoirs.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →A strong upper level low pressure area over western Arizona moved slowly eastward. This feature increased upper level lift over West Texas and southeast New Mexico.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system was approaching the region from the west. There was a dryline across the Permian Basin and Lower Trans Pecos which aided in atmospheric lift. There were lots of boundaries from previous thunderstorms across the area.
Read the full account →Early on the morning of July 9th, multiple rounds of storms associated with a slow-moving low pressure system developed and streamed northward across Cameron County.
Read the full account →May 22nd - 24th, 2020 was an active few days with two main time frames of severe weather, and scattered severe weather reports punctuated elsewhere within these few days.
Read the full account →The eye of Hurricane Ike moved ashore in Galveston County near the city of Galveston. At landfall, Ike had a central pressure of 951.6 mb, as measured at Galveston Pleasure Pier, and a maximum estimated storm surge of 17 feet over portions of Chambers County and the Bolivar…
Read the full account →Several discrete supercells developed across the region producing hail up to the size of softballs, severe winds, flash flooding and tornadoes. The storms eventually merged into a squall line that moved across the region south of Interstate 20.
Read the full account →Heavy rain led to flash flooding across portions of North Central Texas on the 23rd and 24th, with residual flooding lasting through at least the 25th. Rainfall totals in flood damaged areas ranged from 5 to 21+ inches within a 36 hour period.
Read the full account →A stalled front along with abundant moisture and an upper level disturbance produced heavy rainfall across many areas of the Coastal Bend on May 13th, 2015.
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.
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