4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The heavy rain Friday night into Saturday afternoon had left South Central Texas soils saturated. The situation worsened Saturday evening into Sunday as heavy rain associated with the upper low pressure system redeveloped over the western Texas Hill Country.
Read the full account →As a result of general 3 to 4 inch rainfall in less than 4 hours, and isolated totals near 5 inches, widespread flash flooding developed along the Blanco River across southern Blanco and Southern Hays Counties from Blanco to Wimberly.
Read the full account →The heavy rain Friday night into Saturday afternoon had left South Central Texas soils saturated. The situation worsened Saturday evening into Sunday as heavy rain associated with the upper low pressure system redeveloped over the western Texas Hill Country.
Read the full account →A supercell developed just north of San Angelo near Grape Creek and drifted very slowly eastward towards Veribest in northeast Tom Green County. This supercell spawned at least 2 tornadoes, including one that destroyed two mobile homes and damaged 15 homes near Veribest.
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.
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 →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 →Thunderstorms formed again in the mid afternoon over the eastern part of the Texas Hill Country and spread southeastward into the I-35 corridor from New Braunfels southward past San Antonio into the Pearsall area.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms were numerous across parts of the Permian Basin during the evening of the 3rd, with less coverage over the Big Bend and Trans Pecos regions.
Read the full account →A complex of strong thunderstorms affected portions of the central Permian Basin of west Texas during the late afternoon and early evening of the 24th.
Read the full account →A cold front that stretched from the Davis mountains northeast across the Permian Basin initiated a series of training thunderstorms that persisted over the Permian Basin for 48 hours.
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 →Flash floods affected eastern portions of Deep South Texas during the evening hours of May 24 and into the early morning hours of May 25. Thunderstorms with torrential rainfall then redeveloped during the afternoon and evening hours of May 25.
Read the full account →A complex of severe storms developed during the late afternoon hours of the 26th over portions of Lamb and Hockley Counties, and propagated southeastward over Lubbock. The storms produced heavy rains, hail, and severe winds that resulted in a swath of damage.
Read the full account →Excessive heavy rainfall developed across southwest Arkansas during the overnight and pre dawn hours of May 14th. This rainfall developed due to a very moist airmass in place across the Lower Mississippi Valley and a slow moving upper level low pressure system that moved…
Read the full account →Excessive heavy rainfall developed across southwest Arkansas during the overnight and pre dawn hours of May 14th. This rainfall developed due to a very moist airmass in place across the Lower Mississippi Valley and a slow moving upper level low pressure system that moved…
Read the full account →The combination of a southward advancing cold front, warm air advection over the cold front, and an approaching shortwave aided in an explosive period that began the afternoon of May 2nd and continued into the morning hours of May 3rd.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective complex formed across southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas during the predawn hours of July 28th and spread southeast towards the Interstate 20 corridor of northeast Texas into northwest Louisiana during the day.
Read the full account →A deep upper level trough was nearly stationary across south central Texas with thunderstorms developing to the north and east of the trough during the morning hours of June 9th.
Read the full account →A mid level circulation from the Duval County storms drifted northward into McMullen county late on the evening of the 15th, and through the morning hours of the 16th, redeveloping strong showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A mid level circulation from the Duval County storms drifted northward into McMullen county late on the evening of the 15th, and through the morning hours of the 16th, redeveloping strong showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →An upper level trough of low pressure moved into western Texas and produced severe thunderstorms and flash flooding. Thunderstorms in western parts of South Central Texas produced very heavy rain.
Read the full account →A weak upper level disturbance rotating around high pressure across the Deep South combined with very warm and humid air to produce scattered to numerous late afternoon thunderstorms across the Lower Rio Grande Valley on April 16th, some which produced flooding rains.
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