Flash Flood — Montague, Texas

2020-05-22 to 2020-05-23 · near Fruitland, Montague, Texas

Event narrative

Flash flooding occurred across much of the southern half of Montague County after training strong storms produced up to 7 inches of rainfall. In Bowie, many streets were flooded and some buildings were flooded, too. Highway 59 near the Montague/Clay county line also had water over the roadway. The flooding did not subside until the next morning.

Wider weather episode

May 22nd - 24th, 2020 was an active few days with two main time frames of severe weather, and scattered severe weather reports punctuated elsewhere within these few days. The highlight of this period was damaging straight-line winds across Montague, Cooke and Grayson Counties with an EF-1 tornado in Bowie (Montague County) on May 22nd. These storms formed along an outflow boundary and front combined across our northwestern counties. The second significant round of convection was scattered diurnal storms on the 24th that produced a few instances of large hail. This second event occurred ahead of an upper level trough that set the stage for severe weather in the state.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 895181. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.