4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A persistent are of showers and thunderstorms over the extreme southwestern Gulf of Mexico east of the City of Veracruz, Mexico, during the early morning hours of Sunday, September 5th, 2010, gradually organized into Tropical Depression Number 10 shortly after sunset.
Read the full account →Elevated swells with long periods from Tropical Storm Cristobal during the early morning hours of the 7th. Tide levels reached 2.5 feet above mean sea level with long period swells running up to the dunes.
Read the full account →Elevated swells with long periods from Tropical Storm Cristobal during the early morning hours of the 7th. Tide levels reached 2.5 feet above mean sea level with long period swells running up to the dunes.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance interacted with an old frontal boundary and a tropical airmass to produce torrential rain across the Concho Valley and San Angelo. This very heavy rain caused flash flooding and resulted in many homes flooded and several swift water rescues.
Read the full account →An inverted trough moved into the region and interacted with an upper level low. The first day of heavy rain in Southeast Texas produced 4 to 8 inches and caused isolated flooding.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance interacted with an old frontal boundary and a tropical airmass to produce torrential rain across the Concho Valley and San Angelo. This very heavy rain caused flash flooding and resulted in many homes flooded and several swift water rescues.
Read the full account →Intense thunderstorms raked the highly populated McAllen/Edinburg/Mission area of Hidalgo County during the mid-evening of March 29th. The storms dumped hail up to the size of baseballs for more than half an hour, drove that hail with 70 to 75 mph winds, added 4 to 6 inches of…
Read the full account →A nighttime core rain event occurred in the Laredo vicinity during the early morning hours of July 27th. A weak upper level low pressure area moved across the western Brush Country during the night and interacted with deep tropical moisture over the area.
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 →Shortly after noon, moisture deep in the atmosphere was activated by late morning/early morning heating, which triggered the sea breeze and boundaries set off by early morning storms.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture over the region along with a potent upper level disturbance created another severe weather and heavy rain event across South Texas on May 15th. Around daybreak, storms moved into La Salle and McMullen counties where tornadoes produced damage near Woodward.
Read the full account →An upper level trough was over Arizona and New Mexico. A cold front was stalled across portions of Southeast New Mexico and the northern Permian Basin. Hot temperatures were in place ahead of the cold front.
Read the full account →Prolonged flow from the Gulf of Mexico produced a deep moist layer at the surface with precipitable water values two standard deviations above the mean on area soundings.
Read the full account →Deep moisture moved into Southeast Texas from the gulf ahead of an approaching shortwave and cold front. Heavy rain fell across portions of the area that had just received several inches less than a week before.
Read the full account →An upper trough was slowly moving across the Central Plains. A lingering cold front from the previous day was still across the area providing a source of lift along with the upper trough. West Texas was also under a favorable region of the jet stream for lift.
Read the full account →An upper trough was slowly moving across the Central Plains. A lingering cold front from the previous day was still across the area providing a source of lift along with the upper trough. West Texas was also under a favorable region of the jet stream for lift.
Read the full account →Beginning on the evening of the 4th and lasting through the early morning of the 5th, very heavy rains fell over portions of eastern Briscoe, Hall, and western Childress Counties.
Read the full account →A strong upper level disturbance moved out of northern Mexico into South Texas from the evening of the 6th into the morning hours of the 7th. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over the Brush Country during the early morning hours of the 7th.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure was over New Mexico and helped to bring lift and monsoonal moisture into Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Along with abundant moisture and lift, instability was also in place.
Read the full account →Hurricane Claudette made landfall along the middle Texas coast at Port O'Connor around 10:30 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 15, 2003. Claudette was the first hurricane to strike the Port O'Connor and Matagorda Bay area since Hurricane Fern on September 10, 1971.
Read the full account →A complex of storms associated with a quasi-stationary front produced an outflow boundary that caused additional shower/thunderstorm development ahead of the complex. One storm produced 1.25 inch hail in Rockwall County.
Read the full account →The eye of Hurricane Rita moved ashore in extreme southwest Louisiana between Sabine Pass and Johnson's Bayou In Cameron Parish with a minimum central pressure of 937 mb and maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.
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 →An upper level low pressure trough centered over Texas combined with abundant tropical moisture produced periods of scattered showers and thunderstorms over the western Counties of Deep South Texas on June 22.|The heavier showers and thunderstorms produced localized flash…
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