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Texas Flood Stories

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

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Randall, TX · May 26, 2023

During the late evening of May 25th a line of thunderstorms moved into the northwest combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles moving south to southeast into much of the western combined Panhandles.

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Panola, TX · May 11, 2023

An upper level low pressure system slowly ejected northeast across the piney woods of East Texas during the evening through the morning hours of May 10th-11th.

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Nacogdoches, TX · May 11, 2023

An upper level low pressure system slowly ejected northeast across the piney woods of East Texas during the evening through the morning hours of May 10th-11th.

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Deaf Smith, TX · May 27, 2023

The end of May was unusually warm and moist this year. With abundant moisture and lift late in the evening of the 26th a couple of storms that were long lived and slow moving developed across portions of Deaf Smith County.

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Deaf Smith, TX · May 27, 2023

The end of May was unusually warm and moist this year. With abundant moisture and lift late in the evening of the 26th a couple of storms that were long lived and slow moving developed across portions of Deaf Smith County.

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Moore, TX · May 18, 2023

During the afternoon of the 18th, quite a bit of moisture and unstable air was present across the combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. During the heat of the day several supercell thunderstorms created large hail, up to 2.5 in diameter, heavy rain, and damaging wind gusts.

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Randall, TX · May 18, 2023

During the afternoon of the 18th, quite a bit of moisture and unstable air was present across the combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. During the heat of the day several supercell thunderstorms created large hail, up to 2.5 in diameter, heavy rain, and damaging wind gusts.

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Randall, TX · May 18, 2023

During the afternoon of the 18th, quite a bit of moisture and unstable air was present across the combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. During the heat of the day several supercell thunderstorms created large hail, up to 2.5 in diameter, heavy rain, and damaging wind gusts.

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Randall, TX · May 18, 2023

During the afternoon of the 18th, quite a bit of moisture and unstable air was present across the combined Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle. During the heat of the day several supercell thunderstorms created large hail, up to 2.5 in diameter, heavy rain, and damaging wind gusts.

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Gray, TX · May 22, 2023

Early in the afternoon on the 22nd, multiple storms developed across the south central to southeastern Texas Panhandle. Some of these storms produced hail up to 1.5 and some heavy rainfall causing flooding in Gray County.

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Bowie, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Bowie, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Bowie, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Red River, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Morris, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Smith, TX · Oct 5, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Wood, TX · Oct 4, 2023

A prolonged period of very heavy rainfall along with severe thunderstorms occurred on October 4th-5th across parts of Northeast Texas. Showers and thunderstorms with 1-3 inch per hour rainfall rates trained in the vicinity of a warm front, which was oriented across the…

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Lubbock, TX · Oct 2, 2023

Plentiful moisture with lift from a large storm system approaching through the Intermountain West, resulted in numerous showers and thunderstorms late on the second through early on the third.

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Lubbock, TX · Sep 15, 2023

From late on the 14th through the early morning hours on the 15th, severe thunderstorms brought torrential rainfall, large hail, and several swaths of severe winds. Thunderstorms were initially isolated to widely scattered on the evening of the 14th.

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Hockley, TX · Jun 30, 2023

A storm system approached the region from the southern Rockies and Desert Southwest. In addition, rich Gulf of Mexico moisture spread northward into the South Plains.

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Parmer, TX · Jun 3, 2023

Upslope flow and weak surface convergence along a dryline near the Texas/New Mexico state line allowed for scattered thunderstorms to develop late in the afternoon into the evening on the third.

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Lynn, TX · Jun 1, 2023

Rich moisture, a weak upper level disturbance, and several low-level boundaries worked in concert to bring torrential rainfall to portions of the south-central and southeastern South Plains on the first.

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Swisher, TX · Jun 3, 2023

Upslope flow and weak surface convergence along a dryline near the Texas/New Mexico state line allowed for scattered thunderstorms to develop late in the afternoon into the evening on the third.

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Garza, TX · Jun 1, 2023

Rich moisture, a weak upper level disturbance, and several low-level boundaries worked in concert to bring torrential rainfall to portions of the south-central and southeastern South Plains on the first.

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