Flash Flood — Angelina, Texas

2025-05-02 · near Clawson, Angelina, Texas

Event narrative

Frank Street in front of St. Luke's Memorial Hospital was flooded and closed. Ellis Avenue and Angelina Street, Ellis Avenue and Raguet Street, Kurth Drive at the Ellen Trout Drive underpass, and all of Denman Avenue inside the loop were also closed due to flooding.

Wider weather episode

An upper level trough traversed east across the Southern Plains on May 2nd, which reinforced a weak cold front southeast into portions of extreme Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas along the I-30 corridor by afternoon. Strong daytime heating contributed to ample air mass destabilization through the day across the warm and moist sector ahead of the front, with scattered severe thunderstorms developing by midday through much of the afternoon across East Texas. These storms produced sporadic reports of damaging winds, with locally heavy rainfall atop already saturated grounds resulting in flash flooding across portions of the region as well. While the severe threat diminished by mid afternoon, flash flooding persisted through the evening hours.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1261622. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.