Flash Flood, Burnet
- When
- April 17, 2:45 AM CST to 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Burnet County, East Portion
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.788, -98.182 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, April 17, 2001
Rainfall of between 2 and 3 inches fell over the eastern part of Burnet County just after midnight, with up to 5 inches in some locations. The worst flash flooding was in the Marble Falls area, where police barricaded roads until just before sunrise.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $20,000
- 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 between 2 and 3 inches fell over the eastern part of Burnet County just after midnight, with up to 5 inches in some locations. The worst flash flooding was in the Marble Falls area, where police barricaded roads until just before sunrise.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 17, 2:06 AM CST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:06 AM CST, 39 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 306 AM CDT TUE APR 17 2001 CURRENT CONVECTION HAS BECOME MULTICELLULAR. DYNAMICS FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAVE WEAKENED. COMPARING CURRENT SATELLITE IMAGERY AND PROFILER WINDS WITH PROGGED R.H. AND WINDS, SHOWS THE AVN AND NGM DRYING OUT THE ATMOS TOO FAST AND THE ETA AND MESOETA WITH A GOOD HANDLE ON THE HIGH BASED STRATO CU WITH THE 850 MB FRONT. SURFACE CONVERGENCE LINE AHEAD OF COLD FRONT WILL KEEP CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PICTURE TODAY. REMAINING COLD AIR STRATOCU LAYER WILL GET PUSHED WEST TONIGHT AND COLDER TEMPS EAST PORTION FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING. BECAUSE SYSTEMS ARE STILL PROGRESSIVE, THE UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO FLATTEN WEDNESDAY AND BRINGS THE LOW LEVEL JET BACK OVER RIO GRANDE PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CLOUDS SPREAD EASTWARD WEDNESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT ISENTROPIC LIFTING KICKS IN. GOOD WWA WILL PRODUCE SPOTTY DRIZZLE WED NIGHT. CLOUDINESS WANES THURSDAY AS WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT RETURNS, SO PARTLY CLOUDY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND DAYTIME TEMPS BACK TO SEASONAL NORMALS. TEMPS TODAY HOLDING STEADY NEAR MORNING LOWS...OR SLOWLY FALLING DURfING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. WILL WORD FORECAST AS SUCH. PRELIMS... AUS 65 46 66 57 77 5002 SAT 65 52 68 58 78 5002 DRT 71 55 68 60 79 5223 .EWX...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES. 106/02/JB
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- High Wind in North Carolina, April 17, 2001
- Tornado in North Carolina, April 17, 2001
- Wildfire in Florida, April 17 to 20, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, April 17, 2001
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, April 17, 2001
- Heavy Snow in West Virginia, April 17, 2001
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, April 17, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, April 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 17, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Kentucky, April 17 to 18, 2001
- Extreme Cold in North Carolina, April 17 to 19, 2001
- High Wind in South Carolina, April 17, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 2001
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: 5237859.