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4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flood$25K damage

Floyd, TX · Apr 16, 2010

A slow moving storm system translated eastward from the desert southwest across the southern Rockies and plains on the 15th and 16th. Lift and moisture associated with this system resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms that overspread portions of the west Texas Permian…

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Flood$25K damage

Motley, TX · Apr 16, 2010

A slow moving storm system translated eastward from the desert southwest across the southern Rockies and plains on the 15th and 16th. Lift and moisture associated with this system resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms that overspread portions of the west Texas Permian…

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Flood$25K damage

Hall, TX · Apr 16, 2010

A slow moving storm system translated eastward from the desert southwest across the southern Rockies and plains on the 15th and 16th. Lift and moisture associated with this system resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms that overspread portions of the west Texas Permian…

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Flood$25K damage

Childress, TX · Apr 16, 2010

A slow moving storm system translated eastward from the desert southwest across the southern Rockies and plains on the 15th and 16th. Lift and moisture associated with this system resulted in widespread showers and thunderstorms that overspread portions of the west Texas Permian…

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Brazos, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Burleson, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Chambers, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Colorado, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Grimes, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Houston, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Madison, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Montgomery, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Austin, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Trinity, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Walker, TX · Sep 7, 1998

Synoptic Situation...On Monday September 7 (Labor Day) a tropical disturbance in the western Gulf of Mexico was increasing the pressure gradient along the Texas coast. A weak cold front had pushed south to near the Red River by Tuesday evening.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Matagorda, TX · Sep 1, 2003

This flash flood event was from the remnants of Tropical Storm Grace. Grace's broad and poorly defined center moved inland between Port O'Connor and Freeport on the last day of August.

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Tropical Storm$25K damage

Bee, TX · Sep 7, 2010

Tropical Depression Hermine was a unique storm in that it formed as a result of the remnants of Tropical Depression number eleven in the Pacific crossing into the Southwest Gulf of Mexico on Sunday September 5, 2010.

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Flash Flood$75K damage

Ector, TX · Oct 5, 2004

The threat of hazardous weather transitioned from severe local storms to flash flooding around midnight on the 5th as an extensive complex of thunderstorms propagated slowly east over the west Texas Upper Trans Pecos region and the Permian Basin.

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Flash Flood

Montague, TX · Apr 19, 2025

Multiple upper level shortwaves moved overtop the Plains contributing to the development of severe storms near and along a cold front and dryline on and off between the 18th and 20th.

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Flash Flood

Montague, TX · Apr 19, 2025

Multiple upper level shortwaves moved overtop the Plains contributing to the development of severe storms near and along a cold front and dryline on and off between the 18th and 20th.

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Flood

Montague, TX · Apr 20, 2025

Multiple upper level shortwaves moved overtop the Plains contributing to the development of severe storms near and along a cold front and dryline on and off between the 18th and 20th.

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Flash Flood

Angelina, TX · Jul 17, 2014

Excessive heavy rainfall developed across portions of East Central Texas during the late evening hours of July 17th and continued into the predawn hours of July 18th. These storms were the direct result of a stalled boundary and strong low level winds overrunning the boundary.

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Flash Flood

Hidalgo, TX · Sep 15, 2024

A weak stationary frontal boundary combined with a weak upper-level disturbance and remnant atmospheric moisture from former Tropical Storm Ileana (central Gulf of California) to provide slow moving mid to late afternoon thunderstorms from Harlingen to Brownsville.

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Flash Flood

Cameron, TX · Sep 15, 2024

A weak stationary frontal boundary combined with a weak upper-level disturbance and remnant atmospheric moisture from former Tropical Storm Ileana (central Gulf of California) to provide slow moving mid to late afternoon thunderstorms from Harlingen to Brownsville.

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