2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 28, 2:07 AM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 307 AM CDT TUE AUG 28 2001 PERSISTENT SHEAR AXIS CONTINUES ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS REDEVELOPING ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU AND SOUTHERN CONCHO VALLEY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING THAT DRIER AIR ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS HAS MOVED INTO THE BIG COUNTRY ...BUT SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT OF THE DRIER AIR HAS ALMOST STALLED. AT THE SURFACE...MOISTURE ALSO REMAINS HIGH WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70. WHATS LEFT OF THE OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS WASHED OUT. MODELS CONSISTENT IN KEEPING THE SHEAR AXIS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH MID WEEK. MODELS ALSO DRAG EVEN BETTER MOISTURE INTO AT LEAST THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY...AS WAVE SPAWNING DEEP CONVECTION SOUTH OF BROWNSVILLE MOVES INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. STILL...AVIATION HAS BEEN TOO WET THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL LEAN MORE TOWARDS AN ETA AND NGM SOLUTION AND SHOW SLIGHTLY REDUCED POPS. BEST RAIN CHANCES SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...WITH SMALLER POPS ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY. EVEN THE WET AVIATION FINALLY DRAWS DRIER AIR ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY THURSDAY...AS A 500 MB TROUGH EASES EAST INTO CENTRAL TEXAS. NEXT TROUGH MOVES INTO THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND...PUSHING THE NEXT FRONT INTO THE AREA. WILL GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE POPS FOR SATURDAY. ABI 088/069/085/070 2232 SJT 087/069/085/070 3232 JCT 086/069/084/070 5353 .SJT...NONE. 07
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-281500- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 530 AM CDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT... AS A MOIST AIRMASS COMBINES WITH A STATIONARY SHEAR AXIS IN THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS...A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF AN OZONA...SAN ANGELO TO BROWNWOOD LINE. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY. THOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS...HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 22/RUBIN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches across southern Tom Green County brought flooding to the town of Christoval. Highway 277 was closed briefly due to high water, as was Ranch Roads 2335 and 2084. Several cars were abandoned in the high water along Ranch Road 2335 between Christoval and Knickerbocker.
Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches forced the closure of several roads near the town of Mertzon. Highway 67 just east of town was closed, as was County Road 915 just south of town.
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: 5264352, 5264446.