Flash Flood — Sabine, Texas

2008-03-30 to 2008-03-31 · near Hemphill, Sabine, Texas

$2.0M

Property damage

Event narrative

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.

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 87545. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.