4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The broad circulation of poorly organized Tropical Storm Grace made landfall between Port O'Connor and Freeport on August 31st. Grace was the second tropical cyclone to affect this portion of the Texas coast in less than two months (Hurricane Claudette moved through the Port…
Read the full account →A disturbance aloft moved south towards the Interstate 20 corridor of Northeast Texas during the predawn hours and morning hours of September 2nd. These storms were prolific rainfall producers with hourly rainfall rates approaching three inches per hour.
Read the full account →On the afternoon of September 21, North Texas experienced explosive thunderstorm development due to a shortwave trough and a meandering front interacting with a warm, unstable environment.
Read the full account →The upper level trough of low pressure which continued to plague northeast Texas remained anchored across north Texas into southwest Arkansas and northwest Louisiana. This system continued to advect deep tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico northward into the region.
Read the full account →A compact upper level low pressure system to the northwest created ripe conditions for thunderstorm development. A thunderstorm complex moved into north Texas on the morning of July 10, causing flash flooding across a few counties north of the metroplex.
Read the full account →A potent upper level disturbance moved across the region producing several strong to severe thunderstorms across the northern half of southeast Texas.
Read the full account →A cold front moved through the Permian Basin during the morning hours and had stalled over the Lower Trans Pecos by the evening. There were residual boundaries across the area from thunderstorms the previous night.
Read the full account →An upper level trough was over the Rocky Mountains, and an upper ridge was over the southern half of the country. A frontal boundary moved through the Permian Basin during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →Hurricane Dolly, the first storm since Bret (1999) to make landfall along the Deep South Texas barrier islands, left a trail of widespread minor to moderate structural and natural damage across much of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas on July 23rd, and dumped…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dolly, the first storm since Bret (1999) to make landfall along the Deep South Texas barrier islands, left a trail of widespread minor to moderate structural and natural damage across much of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas on July 23rd, and dumped…
Read the full account →An upper trough moved over the Central Plains, and there were a couple of surface boundaries across the region. Afternoon heating, along with clearing skies, helped to destabilize the atmosphere.
Read the full account →Very heavy rain redeveloped in the evening hours from Hondo south to Pearsall and southeastward to Pleasanton. General rain amounts averaged near 2 inches with over 5 inches from Frio Town to Charlotte.
Read the full account →Another cold front stalled across north Texas, leading to favorable conditions for thunderstorms and severe weather. The front, which stalled just south of the Red River, began to move slowly southeast during the night of the 19th and led to numerous severe weather reports…
Read the full account →Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms produced locally heavy rainfall and large hail across portions of the Trans Pecos and the southern Permian Basin regions of west Texas. Hail up to the size of quarters was reported with the strongest storms in Pecos and Brewster Counties.
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms formed across eastern Bexar County and western Guadalupe County in the early morning hours and moved slowly southward. Shortly before sunrise, they became nearly stationary over northeast Wilson County.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms moved across much of the central and eastern sections of the Texas Panhandle during the afternoon and overnight hours. These storms produced large hail and strong thunderstorm wind gusts along with a few tornadoes and flash flooding.
Read the full account →An upper level trough was over the western United States and an upper level disturbance was over northern Mexico. There was plentiful moisture and instability across the area with a dryline present.
Read the full account →An upper level trough was over the western United States and an upper level disturbance was over northern Mexico. There was plentiful moisture and instability across the area with a dryline present.
Read the full account →Significant flooding occurred in the south and southeastern counties when up to 11 of rain fell during the late evening and overnight hours. The flooding rains were caused by large scale lift occurring over a moist but cool boundary layer.
Read the full account →Intense thunderstorm clusters tracked north into the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas near an instability gradient along and northeast of a warm front that was slowly shifting northward from the coast.
Read the full account →Convection was widespread over west Texas on the 25th. The initial activity decreased from west to east during the afternoon hours, but not before resulting in very dangerous urban flash flooding across portions of the Permian Basin.
Read the full account →A cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms developed over the Davis and Glass Mountains during the afternoon of the 14th. One storm produced nickel size hail near Alpine.
Read the full account →A series of upper level disturbances produced multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms across the region. A few storms became severe with large hail and damaging wind gusts, but storms training repeatedly over the same areas led to this being mostly a flood and flash flood…
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the early afternoon of July 9th across the Coastal Plains and Brush Country. This activity was due to a combination of factors: some atmospheric energy skirting the edge of a ridge in the Gulf, the arrival of the sea breeze,…
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