4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →Severe thunderstorms erupted across the region in an unstable airmass ahead of an approaching upper level trough/low. Although initially isolated to scattered early in the event, the storms eventually merged into a squall line that moved across the region.
Read the full account →A large upper level trough stalled over the southwest states while multiple short waves rotated around the larger trough over a few days. This produced several rounds of severe weather with tornadoes, hail, and high winds reported.
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 →Two rounds of heavy rainfall affected the North and Central Texas region as an upper level low approached from the west. The first round affected locations east of Interstate 35 resulting in flooding of mainly roads and along creeks and streams.
Read the full account →A strong upper level trough moved into the Central and Southern Plains during the morning and afternoon hours of December 12th. This trough ejected into the plains with a slight negative tilt which was indicative of strong jet dynamics in association with this trough.
Read the full account →A frontal boundary moved out of the Hill Country as the upper level disturbance moved into northwest Texas and western Oklahoma early on the 14th.
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 →A line of marginally severe thunderstorms developed along a dryline/cold front combination as it moved across the region. Some of the storms north of Interstate 20 produced hail up to 2 in diameter.
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 →Several disturbances in advance of a deepening upper level trough over the southwest states led to multiple rounds of showers and storms across North and Central TX. With wet soils already in place, flash flooding was the main weather concern during this time.
Read the full account →Several disturbances in advance of a deepening upper level trough over the southwest states led to multiple rounds of showers and storms across North and Central TX. With wet soils already in place, flash flooding was the main weather concern during this time.
Read the full account →Several disturbances in advance of a deepening upper level trough over the southwest states led to multiple rounds of showers and storms across North and Central TX. With wet soils already in place, flash flooding was the main weather concern during this time.
Read the full account →Several disturbances in advance of a deepening upper level trough over the southwest states led to multiple rounds of showers and storms across North and Central TX. With wet soils already in place, flash flooding was the main weather concern during this time.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved across the Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 14th. While these thunderstorms did not remain over one location for an extended period of time, they produced very intense rain rates due to the access of an above climatologically normal…
Read the full account →Remains of Tropical Storm Odile were over the region. The atmosphere was very moist and there was a mid-level circulation over northern portions of the area.
Read the full account →A total of 24 tornadoes touched down during this 15 hour period of severe weather in southeastern Texas on November 17, 2003. In addition to these tornadoes, a major flood developed over Harris and surrounding counties during the middle of this tornadic outbreak.
Read the full account →A warm front moving north across the eastern Texas Panhandle and plenty of low level moisture across the northeast Texas Panhandle set the stage for river flooding on Wolf Creek at Lipscomb Texas.
Read the full account →A deep upper level trough located across New Mexico and the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles slowly moved northeast towards the region on April 6th.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms formed along a slow moving frontal boundary along the Coastal Bend. The storms produced locally heavy rainfall ranging from 3 to 5 inches in a couple of hours along the coast.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours on Thursday, generally south of an outflow boundary which stretched roughly along Interstate 20. Several storms became severe, producing mostly large hail.
Read the full account →A warm-core low pressure system slowly moved along the Interstate 35 corridor and provided a focus for deep-tropical convection to develop across the southeastern portions of North Texas.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the night of August 28th over the Concho Valley and became stationary over Irion and southern Tom Green counties through the 29th.
Read the full account →By nightfall on the evening of Saturday, August 22nd, the remains of Charley had stalled over southern Uvalde and northern Zavala Counties. Heavy rainfall from the previous week had left soils in the two counties saturated.
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