Flash Flood, Kendall
- When
- February 20, 11:00 AM CST to 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kendall County, Countywide
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 29.945, -98.712 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, February 20, 1997
Rainfall of up to 3 inches in less than an hour produced flash flooding over much of the county. A woman and her 12-year old granddaughter were trapped near Comfort when their van stalled in a flooded low water crossing.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.
Rainfall of up to 3 inches in less than an hour produced flash flooding over much of the county. A woman and her 12-year old granddaughter were trapped near Comfort when their van stalled in a flooded low water crossing. Fortunately the two were rescued without injury, but the van was lost.
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5587883.