Flash Flood in Gregg County, Texas

River Road and High Street in Longview were both closed. In addition...17 other roads in and around Longview, Texas were closed due to excessive heavy rainfall. The downtown area had several businesses flooded with as many as two feet of water in them.

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.