Flash Flood — San Augustine, Texas

2008-03-30 to 2008-03-31 · near Calgary, San Augustine, Texas

Event narrative

Widespread flooding reported across the northern portion of the county. Flooding was severe on County Road 21 in town and at the circle and along County Road 103. Homes were also flooded around the city. Three foot of water was also reported over Highway 3079. Evacuations had to be made by boat from homes in the northern part of the county. Several roads were washed out and or closed. Over 30 homes in the county were completely flooded along with several businesses. Water was as high as five feet in some homes. One fatality was reported when two people were driving east on State Highway 21 and ran into a ditch and became caught in swift-moving water. One man was rescued in time but the other occupant was swept away in the vehicle. Flooding was so bad near San Augustine that one business was completely knocked from its foundation and carried across a street by the current, drifting into a grocery store's gas pumps.

Wider weather episode

Widespread flooding was reported along and south of a northward moving warm front across the lower Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn country of Deep East Texas into the piney woods of northeast Texas. These storms trained across the same area for most of the pre-dawn hours of the 30th as well as during the day. Large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts were reported across portions of the region as well with isolated tornadoes reported across portions of Deep East Texas and west central Louisiana during the afternoon hours of March 30th.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 87528. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.