Flash Flood — Van Zandt, Texas

2024-06-03 · near Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt, Texas

Event narrative

A social media video showed floodwaters entering a home in Ben Wheeler.

Wider weather episode

Upper level disturbances interacted with leftover surface outflow boundaries from nocturnal MCSs and allowed for scattered strong to severe storms across the region each afternoon from June 1st to June 3rd. A combination of hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding occurred, but an EF-U tornado also occurred in Henderson County on the 3rd. One life was lost June 3rd in Henderson County due to a falling tree in straight-line winds.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (32.4517, -95.7069)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1196683. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.