4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A westward moving upper low over West Texas aided in pulling deep tropical moisture to the northwest along the Rio Grande on July 15th. Scattered thunderstorms developed over the western Brush Country by late afternoon.
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 →Due to the very heavy rains which fell across the upper reaches of the Nueces River watershed, major river flooding was the result between Asherton and the headwaters of Lake Corpus Christi. The Nueces River at Asherton recorded a crest of 29.70 feet on the 14th.
Read the full account →Due to the very heavy rains which fell across the upper reaches of the Nueces River watershed, major river flooding was the result between Asherton and the headwaters of Lake Corpus Christi. The Nueces River at Asherton recorded a crest of 29.70 feet on the 14th.
Read the full account →Due to the very heavy rains which fell across the upper reaches of the Nueces River watershed, major river flooding was the result between Asherton and the headwaters of Lake Corpus Christi. The Nueces River at Asherton recorded a crest of 29.70 feet on the 14th.
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 →Ten earthen dams broke across Tyler County after ten inches of rain in three hours. The hardest hit area was the Ivanhoe subdivision, 6 miles south of Woodville on Highway 69.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike made landfall early during the morning on September 13th near Galveston Texas. Across South Texas, Ike produced a storm surge of 2 to 4 feet across barrier islands and inland bays and waterways, and a storm tide of 3 to 6 feet.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms during the early evening hours produced large hail across the southwest and south-central Texas panhandle. No damage or injuries were reported by the hail.
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 →Hurricane Ike made landfall early during the morning on September 13th near Galveston Texas. Across South Texas, Ike produced a storm surge of 2 to 4 feet across barrier islands and inland bays and waterways, and a storm tide of 3 to 6 feet.
Read the full account →A strongly unstable air mass developed over South Texas in advance of a stalled frontal boundary over south-central Texas on May 10th. As a strong upper level low pressure system over northern Mexico approached the region providing strong shear in the atmosphere, an outbreak of…
Read the full account →A powerful and slow moving upper level low pressure system brought severe weather and flooding to North Texas on the 19th and into the overnight hours of the 20th.
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 →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 →Across already very saturated grounds, a slow moving line of thunderstorms moved into Harris County from central Texas during the evening hours of the 25th.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance slowly progressed east across the southwest US and it provided upper level support for thunderstorm activity. Good moisture was present east of a dryline that was backed up to the mountains of West Texas. Some locations had low to mid 60 dewpoints.
Read the full account →A complex of thunderstorms known as a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) moved through the Western Low Rolling Plains and into the Permian Basin during the early morning hours.
Read the full account →The combination of an approaching late season front, warm humid air, light winds that allowed an afternoon sea breeze to develop, and boundaries from storms moving south from Del Rio and Laredo set the stage for multicell thunderstorm clusters to fire, mainly from northwest…
Read the full account →A complex of thunderstorms known as a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) moved through the Western Low Rolling Plains and into the Permian Basin during the early morning hours.
Read the full account →Tropical Depression Bill brought flooding to parts of North Texas. The counties that experienced the most significant flooding were Wise and Montague Counties, and the northern parts of Parker County. Over a foot of rain fell in parts of Montague County.
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