Flash Flood in Sabine County, Texas
Flash Flood March 30, 2008 – March 31, 2008 · Sabine County, Texas
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Highway 87 was flooded north of Hemphill, Texas. Many roads across the northern part of the county were flooded. Many roads and bridges also washed out. Numerous homes and businesses were flooded throughout the county as well.
The wider storm
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.
Began near Hemphill (31.3786, -93.8504).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 87545. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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