Flood, Bexar
- When
- August 30, 9:30 AM CST to August 31, 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Bexar forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 29.449, -98.520 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Texas, August 30 to 31, 2001
Crest of 20 feet where flood stage is 18 feet.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Crest of 20 feet where flood stage is 18 feet.
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 Aug 30, 9:08 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 9:08 AM CST, 22 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
955 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2001
FFA CONTS FOR ERN THIRD OF CWA AS HEAVY RAINS TRAIN ACROSS S CNTRL
TX WITH TROPICAL CONVECTION ANCHORED NEAR SAN ANTONIO AND CONTINUED
DEVELOPMENT TO THE WEST THIS MORNING. ISOLD SHRA ALSO FORMING OVER
THE FAR WRN CWA WHERE RECENT ETA RUNS HAVE BEEN INDICATING SOME
DEVELOPMENT BACK TO THE WEST AND CONTG EAST. WILL LIKELY HAVE
TO EXTENDED WATCH BEYOND 10 PM ON AFTN PACKAGE.
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 10 PM GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST
OF INTERSTATE 35 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
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SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
955 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
FFA CONTS FOR ERN THIRD OF CWA AS HEAVY RAINS TRAIN ACROSS S CNTRL
TX WITH TROPICAL CONVECTION ANCHORED NEAR SAN ANTONIO AND CONTINUED
DEVELOPMENT TO THE WEST THIS MORNING. ISOLD SHRA ALSO FORMING OVER
THE FAR WRN CWA WHERE RECENT ETA RUNS HAVE BEEN INDICATING SOME
DEVELOPMENT BACK TO THE WEST AND CONTG EAST. WILL LIKELY HAVE
TO EXTENDED WATCH BEYOND 10 PM ON AFTN PACKAGE.
.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 10 PM GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST
OF INTERSTATE 35 OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
1/13/23The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 30, 2001
- Rip Current in California, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, August 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 30, 2001
More
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, August 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: 5260985.