Flash Flood, Galveston
- When
- March 25, 9:50 PM CST to March 26, 12:30 AM CST
- Where
- Galveston County, Texas City
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 29.298, -94.811 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, March 25 to 26, 1997
Numerous reports of street flooding in Texas City and Galveston Island due to training rains.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS HGX wrote it up.
Numerous reports of street flooding in Texas City and Galveston Island due to training rains.
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:49 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Ohio, March 25, 1997
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 25, 1997
- Flooding in Minnesota, March 25 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Texas, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, March 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5595197.