4,808 first-hand accounts of flood events in Texas, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →An upper level trough, surface low pressure center, stationary front, and a Pacific cold front all aided in the development of thunderstorms on Wednesday April 26 across much of the region. Several storms became severe with mainly large hail.
Read the full account →An upper level trough, surface low pressure center, stationary front, and a Pacific cold front all aided in the development of thunderstorms on Wednesday April 26 across much of the region. Several storms became severe with mainly large hail.
Read the full account →An upper level trough, surface low pressure center, stationary front, and a Pacific cold front all aided in the development of thunderstorms on Wednesday April 26 across much of the region. Several storms became severe with mainly large hail.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms pushed southward from the northern Texas Panhandle into the central and southern Texas Panhandle during the evening and early morning hours.
Read the full account →Hurricane Dolly, the first storm since Bret (1999) to make landfall along the Deep South Texas barrier islands, left a trail of widespread minor to moderate structural and natural damage across much of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas on July 23rd, and dumped…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dolly, the first storm since Bret (1999) to make landfall along the Deep South Texas barrier islands, left a trail of widespread minor to moderate structural and natural damage across much of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas on July 23rd, and dumped…
Read the full account →On November 24th, an upper-level disturbance moving across the Southern Plains provided the catalyst for thunderstorm development across parts of North and Central Texas. A warm front, dryline, and an outflow boundary all provided a surface focus for this activity.
Read the full account →On November 24th, an upper-level disturbance moving across the Southern Plains provided the catalyst for thunderstorm development across parts of North and Central Texas. A warm front, dryline, and an outflow boundary all provided a surface focus for this activity.
Read the full account →Another cold front stalled across north Texas, leading to favorable conditions for thunderstorms and severe weather. The front, which stalled just south of the Red River, began to move slowly southeast during the night of the 19th and led to numerous severe weather reports…
Read the full account →Another cold front stalled across north Texas, leading to favorable conditions for thunderstorms and severe weather. The front, which stalled just south of the Red River, began to move slowly southeast during the night of the 19th and led to numerous severe weather reports…
Read the full account →A warm-core low pressure system slowly moved along the Interstate 35 corridor and provided a focus for deep-tropical convection to develop across the southeastern portions of North Texas.
Read the full account →A warm-core low pressure system slowly moved along the Interstate 35 corridor and provided a focus for deep-tropical convection to develop across the southeastern portions of North Texas.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a dryline the evening of May 1 as an upper level disturbance swept across the forecast area. Some storms became severe as they moved across mainly Central Texas Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms produced large hail...damaging winds and flash flooding across the southwestern...central and northeastern Texas panhandle during the late afternoon and evening hours. Damage was reported due to the high winds and flash flooding.
Read the full account →A plume of moist tropical air was streaming northward over far west Texas between an upper high to the east and a Pacific upper trough to the west. In addition, a weak backdoor front was stalled across the area.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms continued to erupt in an unstable environment behind the MCS that moved through north Texas on the 10th. Training cells moved across the northern portions of the Metroplex and Dallas County resulting in significant flash flooding.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms that formed north of Leakey near noon spread slowly southward, producing general 1 to 2 inch rainfall, with totals of up to 4 inches from southeast of Leakey to near Vanderpool in western Bandera County.
Read the full account →A modified tropical airmass remained over much of west Texas on the 29th. Thunderstorms initially developed in the Trans Pecos region of the state and across the plains of southeastern New Mexico.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms produced large hail, damaging winds and very heavy rainfall over the west Texas South Plains during the evening hours of the 28th. Most damage occurred over northern Lynn County, where large hail destroyed young cotton crops.
Read the full account →An unusual westward-moving cold core low entered New Mexico on the 16th ahead of a deep surge of Gulf moisture. Widespread rainfall developed in the Rolling Plains late on the 16th before spreading west onto the Caprock and intensifying with torrential rainfall rates measured as…
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary over south Texas in combination with a upper level storm system moving out of the Southwest Portion of the United States resulted in heavy rains and flooding for the second time this month across the Edwards Plateau and the Northwest Hill Country.
Read the full account →Early in the evening on the 8th a small cluster of storms moved southeast through Deaf Smith and Randall County from eastern New Mexico. Later into the evening a much larger complex of storms moved into the Oklahoma Panhandle from SE Colorado and SW Kansas, before entering the…
Read the full account →On the evening of May 16, a derecho moved into SE TX. This resulted in extensive wind damage across much of the Greater Houston area, including much of Downtown Houston. Maximum wind gusts were estimated to have reached over 100 mph.
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