4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Heavy rain began falling near 0200CST in the San Antonio area, and spread over the following three hours into Kendall, Frio and Medina Counties just to the west and northwest of San Antonio.
Read the full account →A slow moving trough over eastern New Mexico and western Texas interacted with a stationary frontal boundary and plenty of gulf moisture across West Central Texas to produce copious amounts of rain from August 14 through August 16.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Erin moved inland near Port Aransas on the morning of August 16 and continued toward the northwest, in the general direction of San Antonio.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Erin moved inland near Port Aransas on the morning of August 16 and continued toward the northwest, in the general direction of San Antonio.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Erin moved inland near Port Aransas on the morning of August 16 and continued toward the northwest, in the general direction of San Antonio.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Erin moved inland near Port Aransas on the morning of August 16 and continued toward the northwest, in the general direction of San Antonio.
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 →On the morning of October 13th, 2013, a complex of showers and thunderstorms developed between Eagle Pass and Cotulla. These showers and thunderstorms continued to form and move over nearly the same area throughout the afternoon and evening hours on the 13th into the early…
Read the full account →On the morning of October 13th, 2013, a complex of showers and thunderstorms developed between Eagle Pass and Cotulla. These showers and thunderstorms continued to form and move over nearly the same area throughout the afternoon and evening hours on the 13th into the early…
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 Alex made its final landfall at 9pm, Wednesday June 30th, along the northern Mexican coast around 110 miles south of Brownsville as a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.
Read the full account →A short wave moved into the area along the base of a larger trough. This brought a line of storms from north of Houston into deep Southeast Texas that slowly moved through. Flash flooding occurred in Tyler county that lead an earthen dam to break north of Woodville.
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 →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 →An upper level disturbance kicked off multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms along a stationary front which stretched across North Texas.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance kicked off multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms along a stationary front which stretched across North Texas.
Read the full account →An upper trough to the west of the region was heading east and increased lift as upper level disturbances moved over the area. Good surface heating was present along with good low-level moisture. Instability and wind shear were also good across the area.
Read the full account →An approaching broad upper low east of the Four Corners region placed eastern Texas in a favorable upper air pattern conducive to sustaining either a mesoscale storm complex or an organized linear storm system.
Read the full account →There was moisture coming into the region from Tropical Storm Odile over northern Mexico/southern New Mexico. This made the air mass very moist. Upper level disturbances were moving over the area from Odile which increased atmospheric lift.
Read the full account →An upper low was located along the Arizona/New Mexico border progressing slowly eastward into the northern Texas Panhandle with associated upper-level disturbances rotating around the base of the upper trough.
Read the full account →A deep upper level trough of low pressure and strong cold front moved into an area of deep boundary layer moisture. The system initially produced supercell thunderstorms which produced several tornadoes and large hail.
Read the full account →An isolated thunderstorm remained nearly stationary for a couple of hours over the northern portion of Jim Wells County in the evening of April 1st. This storm produced 3 to 7 inches of rainfall west of Orange Grove.
Read the full account →An upper level low was over southern Arizona moving southward, and this feature increased upper level lift over West Texas and southeast New Mexico. This upper low was pulling moisture northward into the area from the Gulf of Mexico.
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