4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A strong upper level storm system, combined with high moisture levels to produce a bands of excessive rainfall that caused flash flooding across Fort Bend, Harris and Liberty Counties.
Read the full account →Rich low level moisture combined with increasing warm air advection and a very slow moving upper level low resulted in a heavy rainfall event that began during the afternoon of the 24th and ended from west to east during the day on the 25th.
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall over the Dallas/Fort Worth area; resulting in flash flooding in Dallas, Tarrant, and southern Denton County. Rainfall rates up to 2 in 30 minutes were measured during the event.
Read the full account →A deep fetch of Gulf moisture overspread the South Plains this afternoon in advance of a slow-moving trough. Numerous thunderstorms erupted by late afternoon across the western South Plains and spread slowly northeast through the overnight hours under weak upper level winds.
Read the full account →A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
Read the full account →Numerous slow moving showers and thunderstorms developed this morning north of an upper low located over the western Permian Basin. One particularly intense band of rainfall trained northwestward across western Terry and eastern Yoakum Counties late this morning for nearly three…
Read the full account →A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
Read the full account →A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
Read the full account →A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a dryline moving across the region. These storms were hail producers and mainly affected areas primarily along and north of US 380 from Decatur to Sulphur Springs.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from a weak surface front and an upper level disturbance, combined with already saturated soil from an unusually wet summer led to flash flooding across portions of the Texas Big Country.
Read the full account →Glasscock County was probably the most affected county in the region by the flooding. Almost the entire county received in excess of 2 inches of rain with the northwest half (about 400 square miles) of the county getting inundated with around 6 inches of rain.
Read the full account →Weak disturbances were moving around an upper trough over the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. Daytime heating and air lifting over the higher terrain combined with moist southeast surface winds to create conditions for thunderstorms.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
Read the full account →Portions of the Texas Panhandle experienced tropical-like precipitation which led to localized flash flooding during the evening hours of the 19th. The remnants of Tropical Depression Manuel streamed across the panhandle ahead of a slow southward progressing cold front.
Read the full account →The end of May brought widespread flooding to north and central Texas. By the end of the month, the region had essentially erased a four year drought in less than four weeks. Several area lakes were in surcharge capacity and releasing water downstream.
Read the full account →A cold front moved south out of the Texas panhandle on May 6th, and was draped across north Texas on the 7th and 8th. The front stalled across the northwestern sections of north Texas and combined to produce severe thunderstorms including large hail, tornadoes, and flash…
Read the full account →Discrete supercell thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon hours across North Central Texas. These storms moved eastward into Northeast Texas during the late evening and overnight hours of the 18th.
Read the full account →An upper level closed low, an upper level disturbance, and low level moisture all converged over southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. All of this led to a Mesoscale Convective System that moved over the area dumping one to three inches of rain and resulting in massive flash…
Read the full account →A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
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