4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Thunderstorms formed again in the mid afternoon over the eastern part of the Texas Hill Country and spread southeastward into the I-35 corridor from New Braunfels southward past San Antonio into the Pearsall area.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms formed again in the mid afternoon over the eastern part of the Texas Hill Country and spread southeastward into the I-35 corridor from New Braunfels southward past San Antonio into the Pearsall area.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms formed again in the mid afternoon over the eastern part of the Texas Hill Country and spread southeastward into the I-35 corridor from New Braunfels southward past San Antonio into the Pearsall area.
Read the full account →Heavy rain fell through the mid afternoon in a band from near Seguin in Guadalupe County westward to New Braunfels and across Comal County in to Kendall County as far west as Comfort. Average rainfall was between 1 and 2 inches, with isolated totals over 4 inches.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms began reforming across the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to New Braunfels near sunrise, and by mid-morning, had produced an additional rainfall averaging 1 to 2 inches from San Antonio and New Braunfels southeastward into the Seguin and Floresville…
Read the full account →Isolated showers had occurred over much of South Central Texas in advance of Tropical Storm Fay on Friday, Sept. 6. Tropical storm Fay came ashore near Palacios, near 6 am CST on Saturday, Sept. 7. Rainfall, at first spotty, became widespread by mid morning.
Read the full account →Toward the end of June, 2002, a trough of low pressure, featuring a cold-core low on its north end, moved inland from the western Gulf of Mexico across the Texas Coast.
Read the full account →Isolated showers had occurred over much of South Central Texas in advance of Tropical Storm Fay on Friday, Sept. 6. Tropical storm Fay came ashore near Palacios, near 6 am CST on Saturday, Sept. 7. Rainfall, at first spotty, became widespread by mid morning.
Read the full account →Tropical-like rainfall occurred over portions of west Texas during the last weekend in September. On Sunday the 26th, widespread flash floods resulted from heavy rains that accompanied a complex of warm topped convection that propagated slowly from the mountains of southwest…
Read the full account →A significant heavy rainfall event occurred across Goliad and Victoria Counties on November 20-21, 2004. Up to 15 inches of rainfall was observed over northern Goliad County which resulted in Flash Flooding along Perdido, Coleto, and Spring Creeks.
Read the full account →A cold front that stretched from the Davis mountains northeast across the Permian Basin initiated a series of training thunderstorms that persisted over the Permian Basin for 48 hours.
Read the full account →A cold front moved into South-Central Texas during the late afternoon hours of Saturday, September 23rd, producing a broken line of thunderstorms. A very moist and unstable atmosphere was in place across South Texas, along with a modest low-level jet.
Read the full account →A pre-existing low level boundary, or weak front, was oriented from southwest to northeast across the west Texas South Plains region during the midday hours of the 25th.
Read the full account →Flash floods affected eastern portions of Deep South Texas during the evening hours of May 24 and into the early morning hours of May 25. Thunderstorms with torrential rainfall then redeveloped during the afternoon and evening hours of May 25.
Read the full account →A very unstable airmass developed across the four state region during the afternoon hours of May 2nd. A weak cold front had moved southward during the morning hours into southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas and had stalled.
Read the full account →The combination of a southward advancing cold front, warm air advection over the cold front, and an approaching shortwave aided in an explosive period that began the afternoon of May 2nd and continued into the morning hours of May 3rd.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective complex formed across southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas during the predawn hours of July 28th and spread southeast towards the Interstate 20 corridor of northeast Texas into northwest Louisiana during the day.
Read the full account →A slow moving tropical upper level system brought rainfall to north Texas for 5-6 days. Total rainfall accumulations across north Texas ranged from less than an inch to nearly 15 inches. Most locations picked up 2-10 inches over the entire event.
Read the full account →A mid level circulation from the Duval County storms drifted northward into McMullen county late on the evening of the 15th, and through the morning hours of the 16th, redeveloping strong showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine moved through the western portions of north Texas dropping several inches of water in some locations and producing 8 tornadoes. Significant flash flooding occurred during the late evening hours of September 7th through September 8th.
Read the full account →A complex of strong thunderstorms rolled across the South Plains region of west Texas during the overnight hours of the 7th and early morning hours of the 8th. One storm within the complex became severe, and produced large hail over Childress.
Read the full account →A slow moving tropical upper level system brought rainfall to north Texas for 5-6 days. Total rainfall accumulations across north Texas ranged from less than an inch to nearly 15 inches. Most locations picked up 2-10 inches over the entire event.
Read the full account →A slow moving tropical upper level system brought rainfall to north Texas for 5-6 days. Total rainfall accumulations across north Texas ranged from less than an inch to nearly 15 inches. Most locations picked up 2-10 inches over the entire event.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Allison formed in the northwest Gulf of Mexico during the early afternoon of June 5th, 80 miles south of Galveston. Allison moved northward, making landfall on the west end of Galveston Island between midnight and 1am on the 6th, less than 12 hours after forming.
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