Flash Flooding in Texas, November 3, 2000

Name: Flash Flooding in Texas, November 3, 2000
Start: 2000-11-03T00:30
End: 2000-11-03T05:00
Location: Texas

November 3, 2000 · NWS EWX · 4 events in 4 counties and zones

Heavy rain redeveloped from eastern Edwards and Real Counties into western Bandera and Kerr Counties near midnight on the 2nd. General rainfall totals were only 1 to 2 inches.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $35,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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.

Heavy rain redeveloped from eastern Edwards and Real Counties into western Bandera and Kerr Counties near midnight on the 2nd. General rainfall totals were only 1 to 2 inches. However, isolated amounts up to 5 inches were indicated between Rocksprings and Leakey. Since much of the soil across the area was already saturated from previous rainfall, flash flooding developed very quickly. A woman, aged 82, was drowned in her vehicle in Guadalupe River near Center Point in the early morning hours of the 3rd. The vehicle was swept away into the Guadalupe and she was unable to escape.

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:30 UTC.

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Event by event

4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Bandera

When: November 3, 12:30 AM CST to 2:00 AM CST
Where: Bandera County, West Portion
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.747, -99.246 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flash Flood, Kerr

When: November 3, 1:30 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
Where: Kerr County, Countywide
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $15,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 30.062, -99.350 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flash Flood, Edwards

When: November 3, 1:30 AM CST to 3:00 AM CST
Where: Edwards County, Northeast Portion
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.983, -100.305 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flash Flood, Real

When: November 3, 1:30 AM CST to 3:00 AM CST
Where: Real County, North Portion
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.832, -99.822 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Flash Flood, Kerr	2000-11-03	82	Female	Vehicle/Towed Trailer	Direct

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

Every storm in Texas in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Texas, November 2000

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: 5161058, 5161059, 5161060, 5161061.