August 28-31 Episode NarrativeAfter numerous days of rain, flash flooding became a problem around the end of the month. Additional rain fell on already saturated ground which exacerbated the situation.
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The episode as NWS FWD wrote it up.
August 28-31 Episode NarrativeAfter numerous days of rain, flash flooding became a problem around the end of the month. Additional rain fell on already saturated ground which exacerbated the situation. Slow moving storms as well as storms "training" over the same areas caused scattered flash flooding, mainly in southwestern and northern portions of the region. Three areas hit particularly hard were the urban locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, Bell County, and in northwest portions of Milam County. Temple reported 9.58 inches of rain on the 30th.
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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 28, 3:43 AM CST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 443 AM CDT TUE AUG 28 2001 AVIATION DISCUSSION... LOOK FOR A GRADUAL DECREASE IN CEILINGS TODAY...ALONG WITH AN INCREASED CHANCE FOR RAIN. EXPECT CEILINGS TO REMAIN ABOVE MVFR FOR THE MOST PART...BUT DROPPING BLO 10K FT AGL. LIGHT SOUTH WIND TODAY. TOMORROW...EXPECT CIGS AND VSBYS TO DROP TO AT LEAST MVFR AS RAIN CHANCES INCREASE OVER THE AREA. 42 414 AM CDT PUBLIC DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL TROUGH REMAINS ELONGATED NE-SW ACROSS NTX. SUBSIDENCE EVIDENT FROM IR SATELLITE LOOP ON NW SIDE OF TROUGH AXIS. WEAK CYCLONIC FLOW IN THE MID LEVELS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SW...THEN MOVE BACK INTO THE AREA WEDNESDAY. THIS SYSTEM TAKES ITS TIME MOVING THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY BEFORE MOVING EAST OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT. POTENTIAL FOR ONE INCH AMOUNTS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AREAS WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. SHOULD HAVE MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...THEN A FRONT MOVES INTO NTX SATURDAY AND HANGS AROUND INTO SUNDAY WITH SCATTERED RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS. AS FOR LABOR DAY...WILL GO WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND DRY. LOCAL TEMP STUDY INDICATING MID 80S FOR MOST OF NTX. WILL FOLLOW SUIT WITH RESPECT TO TEMPS. AVN HAS BETTER HANDLE OF POPS AND WILL USE THEM INSTEAD OF NGM MOS POPS. FCSTID = 75 DFW 87 74 86 73 / 50 50 70 60 ACT 87 73 85 76 / 70 60 90 60 .FWD...NONE.
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 449 AM CDT TUE AUG 28 2001 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL BUT THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY...AND OVER THE ENTIRE REGION TONIGHT. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...BUT LIGHTNING WILL DEFINITELY PRESENT A HAZARD. RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS. OTHERWISE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:58 UTC.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Cowhouse Creek was out of its banks at Pottsville. Pottsville had 5.5 inches of rain during the early morning.
Three streets were closed due to high water.
Water was two feet deep over farm to market roads west of the city. Indian Gap had 8 inches of rain during the morning.
Flooding was reported in Killeen and Nolanville, with some families evacuated.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 2001
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: 5265269, 5265358, 5265356, 5265357.