4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →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 strong upper level low pressure system dropped southward out of the Central Plains and into the Middle Red River Valley of northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas.
Read the full account →Extensive flooding occurred along Wolf Creek in southeast Ochiltree County. At Lake Fryer along the creek water ran 8 feet over the spill way. Two campers were washed downstream and water flood sic other campers and four homes.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed as a strong shortwave and cold front moved into the region. These storms produced lots of hail up to golf ball sized. One person was struck by lightning in Montague County but survived without significant injuries.
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 →After slamming into the Gulf coast, Hurricane Ike weakened slowly as it moved north. Several counties in east Texas received damaging winds from the storm. Sustained winds of 25-35 MPH with gusts up to 50 MPH were reported for several hours as T.S. Ike moved east of the area.
Read the full account →A very strong thunderstorm peaked in intensity as it crossed from Mexico into the Laredo area on the night of September 14th. This initial storm contained heavy rain rates and weas then followed by a few other storms in wake during the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →A very strong thunderstorm peaked in intensity as it crossed from Mexico into the Laredo area on the night of September 14th. This initial storm contained heavy rain rates and weas then followed by a few other storms in wake during the early morning hours of the 15th.
Read the full account →A surface boundary was located across Southwest New Mexico with a weak mid level trough off to the southwest. A deep layer of moisture was in place across the region with dew points around 60 in El Paso.
Read the full account →A 500mb shortwave trough worked from northwest to southeast from the Texas Big Bend through Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, bringing a cold front through the region.
Read the full account →A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system shifted east from Montana east into the Dakotas on April 20th, with the attendant trough extending southward through the Rockies before ejecting east through the Central and Southern Plains during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.
Read the full account →An upper level low pressure system shifted east from Montana east into the Dakotas on April 20th, with the attendant trough extending southward through the Rockies before ejecting east through the Central and Southern Plains during the afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.
Read the full account →A complex of thunderstorms developed in northeast New Mexico and parts of the Texas Panhandle on the evening of the 26th and swept southeastward early on the 27th, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to all but the southwestern South Plains.
Read the full account →Late in the afternoon into the evening of the 27th, a couple of supercells moving east-southeast out of eastern New Mexico produced severe weather in the western South Plains.
Read the full account →Scattered supercell thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the 28th and persisted through the evening producing several severe storms despite weak background forcing.
Read the full account →Scattered supercell thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the 28th and persisted through the evening producing several severe storms despite weak background forcing.
Read the full account →Scattered supercell thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of the 28th and persisted through the evening producing several severe storms despite weak background forcing.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms early in the morning on the 25th kept conditions relatively stable on the afternoon of the 25th which prevented thunderstorms from developing over the region.
Read the full account →Another consecutive evening of severe storms occurred on the Caprock on the evening of the 23rd as the atmosphere again became very unstable. Several of the thunderstorms were able to gain significant mid-level rotation which allowed them to generate very large hail.
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