4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A front stalled over the Coastal Bend on the 30th. Scattered thunderstorms formed north of the boundary during the afternoon as an upper level disturbance approached from the west. Storms produced very heavy rainfall from the northern Coastal Bend to the Brush Country.
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 weak surface boundary draped across the southern half of Northeast Texas combined with pacific moisture and an vigorous upper level disturbance in association with the remnants of Hurricane Miriam which came from the East Pacific.
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 →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 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 →A stationary front draped across central portions of North Texas served as a focus for thunderstorm development on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile a second thunderstorm complex advanced from the northwest.
Read the full account →A stationary front draped across central portions of North Texas served as a focus for thunderstorm development on Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile a second thunderstorm complex advanced from the northwest.
Read the full account →Intense heating and topography combined with outflow boundaries from prior storms aided in providing a focus for thunderstorms. Strong wind shear and high instability helped generate severe thunderstorms that produced large hail and strong winds.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms developed along the northern Coastal Bend during the morning hours of the 8th. Training of thunderstorms occurred across much of Aransas and eastern Calhoun counties.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms continued to erupt in an unstable environment behind the MCS that moved through north Texas on the 10th. Training cells moved across the northern portions of the Metroplex and Dallas County resulting in significant flash flooding.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms continued to erupt in an unstable environment behind the MCS that moved through north Texas on the 10th. Training cells moved across the northern portions of the Metroplex and Dallas County resulting in significant flash flooding.
Read the full account →Widespread rain and thunderstorms occurred over the region as large scale lift combined with deepening tropical moisture. The tropical moisture was enhanced by a tropical system in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Read the full account →Widespread rain and thunderstorms occurred over the region as large scale lift combined with deepening tropical moisture. The tropical moisture was enhanced by a tropical system in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Read the full account →A surface high over the plains states brought moist southeast flow into the region with dew points into the lower to mid 60s. An upper ridge was located right over the Rockies with weak flow aloft keeping storm motion very slow.
Read the full account →An upper level storm system deepened over the Southwest U.S. before advancing east into the Plains. This system was accompanied by a slow-moving cold front, and together produced multiple days of showers and thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance moving across South Texas, combined with a very moist and unstable atmosphere, produced strong to severe thunderstorms across South Texas on May 31st.
Read the full account →June 3rd & 4th - Event NarrativeNumerous boundaries were across the state and they acted as triggers for showers and thunderstorms. Upper level winds were very light and any storms that formed moved very slowly.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed and moved across the western and central Texas Panhandle during the mid afternoon through the evening and late night hours producing extreme amounts of hail as well as strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
Read the full account →Moisture was coming into the area from Tropical Storm Octave in the Pacific Ocean. Additional low-level moisture was moving in from the Gulf of Mexico.
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 →An upper-level low was centered over northern New Mexico. The atmosphere was very unstable with cooling occurring in the middle levels. A very moist air mass was in place, and the ground was already saturated from recent rainfall making conditions ideal for flash flooding.
Read the full account →For several days, a stalled cold front, combined with abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combined to produce widespread rain and thunderstorms in Texas.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over south Texas in combination with a upper level storm system over the southwest portion of the U.S. produced heavy rains over portion of Scleicher, Crockett, and Sutton Counties.
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