4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Prolonged flow from the Gulf of Mexico produced a deep moist layer at the surface with precipitable water values two standard deviations above the mean on area soundings.
Read the full account →Prolonged flow from the Gulf of Mexico produced a deep moist layer at the surface with precipitable water values two standard deviations above the mean on area soundings.
Read the full account →High pressure building over the western plains sent the remnant moisture of Hurricane Odile, which had passed over the region a few days earlier, back into far west Texas. A weak upper trough was moving into the southwestern U.S.
Read the full account →An upper level disturbance provided enough lift to generate scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoons of July 8th and 9th. Damaging wind was the primary severe weather occurrence, but a few storms also produced quarter sized hail and caused localized flash…
Read the full account →A warm front and a dry line combined to produce another round of severe weather across the region. Three tornadoes occurred on April 29th producing relatively minor damage equivalent to EF-0 damage.
Read the full account →Numerous showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall over the Dallas/Fort Worth area; resulting in flash flooding in Dallas, Tarrant, and southern Denton County. Rainfall rates up to 2 in 30 minutes were measured during the event.
Read the full account →The remnants of a thunderstorm complex moved southeast from the Plains into North Texas overnight Friday Night. Storms were sub-severe, but created some problems with added minor flooding across the area Saturday Morning.
Read the full account →A complex of thunderstorms dumped very heavy rainfall that resulted in flash flooding across a large part of West Central Texas that included Abilene, Brownwood, Brady, San Angelo, and Coleman. One life was lost as a motorist drove into a flooded area.
Read the full account →An upper low was located over Arizona which was able to tap into some mid level Baja moisture. At the same time, southeast surface winds brought in Gulf of Mexico moisture at the low levels.
Read the full account →A late season mid to upper level low moved through the southern plains. Jet streaks around this low provided enough lift to produce thunderstorms across South Central Texas. Some thunderstorms produced severe size hail.
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 →A slow moving storm system dropped heavy rain across North Central Texas Saturday night, December15th and during the day Sunday December 16th. Unofficial reports of four to ten inches of rain fell in 48 hours along and east of Interstate 35.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Hermine made landfall near the Texas/Mexico border on the night of September 6. The storm moved northward through South Texas into South Central Texas. Strong winds and flooding rain began in South Central Texas on September 7.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Hermine made landfall near the Texas/Mexico border on the night of September 6. The storm moved northward through South Texas into South Central Texas. Strong winds and flooding rain began in South Central Texas on September 7.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Hermine made landfall near the Texas/Mexico border on the night of September 6. The storm moved northward through South Texas into South Central Texas. Strong winds and flooding rain began in South Central Texas on September 7.
Read the full account →On Friday September 17th, 2010, Hurricane Karl made landfall over central Mexico near Veracruz nearly 600 miles south of Corpus Christi Texas. However, well to the north of Karl, a very moist tropical air mass resided and became the focus for a significant rainfall event.
Read the full account →Severe flooding revisited the Houston HSA during the month of October. The event began Saturday afternoon October 17th as train echo development across the northwest HSA.
Read the full account →Torrential rainfall from Hurricane Alex and remains, followed by daily peltings of rain across the front range of the Sierra Madre Oriental, and concluding with the remnants of Tropical Depression Number 2 dropped perhaps 50 or more inches of rain across Coahuila Province,…
Read the full account →Hurricane Rita moved onshore the Southeast Texas/Southwest Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 24, 2005 and moved northward into portions of East Central Texas during the predawn hours.
Read the full account →An upper level trough moved across Texas and combined with deep low moisture to produce heavy rain on consecutive days that produced flash flooding.
Read the full account →A deep upper level trough of low pressure and strong cold front moved into an area of deep boundary layer moisture. The system initially produced supercell thunderstorms which produced several tornadoes and large hail.
Read the full account →A young boy was pulled unconscious from Waco Creek after being swept away by an eight foot flood bore produced by locally heavy rain in the area. The boy was in the water for nearly an hour and suffered major brain damage from lack of oxygen.
Read the full account →A 63-year old man drowned near 9 am CST as he attempted to cross the North Fork of the Guadalupe River along highway 1340 for the second time that morning. He had previously crossed and was returning when his vehicle was swept downstream.
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.
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