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West Texas flash flood

West Texas Flash Flood Damage Map, Oct 15-16, 2026

West Texas flash flood has 5 local storm reports in the storm area. Flood and heavy rain are shown. Social posts are hand-picked.

2026 · Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026. Local storm reports in the storm area.

How to read this. Each dot is a local storm report: a flood or heavy rain. A shaded area is an active flash flood warning. Open a dot for the place, the time in Eastern Time, and what was reported. The map opens on the reports. The boxes show or hide each kind on the map and in the list. A hollow pin is a hand-picked post from that town. When several posts are from the same town, the pin lists every one of them. It is not a full list of social media.

The technical details

Local storm reports come from the National Weather Service LSR feed as republished by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/lsr.geojson. The request uses the event dates, from 6 hours before the start through 36 hours after the end, and the states that meet the event area. A report is kept when it is a flood or heavy rain, and it falls inside that area. Plain rain reports stay out. Active flash flood warnings come from api.weather.gov for those states. A warning is drawn when its polygon meets the event area. The next collect replaces that file. A warning with no polygon is left out. Times are Eastern Time (ET). The file is cached with the other collected feeds. If the feed is down, the previous file stays. An empty cache shows no dots. A curated post list is optional. A missing file shows no pins.

Social pins are an approved list stored with the site. The coordinates are the town, not a person. The site stores the post address and id, and does not download the photo or video. X uses the official embed from platform.twitter.com, and that script loads only on this page when an X post is approved. Instagram and Facebook are a link card until META_OEMBED_TOKEN is set, which asks Meta for the official embed. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The methodology page is the full reference for the forecast scores. How we grade says the same rules in plain English. This map is not a score.

Damage map

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  • Heavy rain
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Local storm reports

5 reports from when the storm was nearby.

The kind of local storm report: wind gust, damage, flood, surge, or tornado. How strong the report was, in the units the National Weather Service used. Blank when the report did not include a number. Eastern TimeWhen the report was valid, shown in Eastern Time. The town, or the distance from a town, in the local storm report. RemarksThe note that came with the local storm report.
Flood — 12:48 PM ET Thu, Oct 15 4 N Fairview, TX Report from mPING: River/Creek overflowing; Cropland/Yard/Basement Flooding.
Flood — 12:47 PM ET Thu, Oct 15 4 N Midland Internation, TX Member of public reported road closure due to flooding 4 miles north of KMAF at West State Highway 158 between County Road 1247 and Wadley St.
Flood — 12:42 PM ET Thu, Oct 15 1 W Stanton, TX Trained spotter reported water over roads near the Stanton high School.
Flood — 12:06 PM ET Thu, Oct 15 4 WNW Midland, TX Law Enforcement reported water over the hoods of cars and numerous cars flooded out. The draw at Lamesa Rd is over the banks.
Flood — 11:57 AM ET Thu, Oct 15 1 WSW Midland, TX Trained spotter reported widespread flooding in north central midland and around the Midland Memorial Hospital.

Source: National Weather Service local storm reports, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. These reports are preliminary. Forecast Scoreboard is not affiliated with NWS, NOAA, or Iowa State University.

Flash flood warnings

No flash flood warning is on file for this area yet.

Active flash flood warnings come from the National Weather Service. The next collect replaces this list. A warning that has expired drops off.

Hand-picked posts

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None are approved for this storm yet.