4 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 11:20 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED TO ADD AVIATION DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1220 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL
CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA AIRPORTS. ACTIVITY WILL BE CONCENTRATED
NEAR A SURFACE TROUGH THAT EXTENDS NEAR A PARIS...TO DALLAS...TO
MINERAL WELLS LINE. WILL KEEP MOSTLY MVFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE
REGION FOR THIS AFTERNOON...INTO THE EVENING. SHOULD SEE CONDITIONS
DETERIORATE TO IFR IN PRECIPITATION OVERNIGHT. 58
1120 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 PUBLIC FORECAST DISCUSSION...
MORNING SURFACE AND UPPER AIR ANALYSIS...AS WELL AS NEW MODEL
DATA...SUGGESTS PRIMARY AREA FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS MORE IN LINE WITH THE UPPER
LEVEL LOW WORKING NE. HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT THIS THINKING.
TEMPTED TO CUT DOWN COVERAGE OF FFA...BUT INVERTED TROF AT 14Z
STRETCHED FROM SE OKLAHOMA INTO THE HILL COUNTRY. THIS FEATURE COULD
PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR RENEWED DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.
THUS...HAVE TRIMMED A FEW COUNTIES OFF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH OUT
WEST...BUT MOST OF IT WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
DROPPED MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGREES WITH EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND
RAINFALL. REST OF PACKAGE LEFT ALONE ATTM. 80
.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THIS AFTERNOON EASTERN 2/3S...ALG AND E OF
A GAINESVILLE...TO FORT WORTH...TO LAMPASAS LINE.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway 287 was closed and all streets in town were flooded. The Silver Leaf Mobile Home Park was flooded. Mansfield reported 4 inches of rain in 3 hours.
Cars at the intersection of Highway 360 and Camp Wisdom were flooded.
Some streets were closed due to high water.
Some streets were closed due to high water.
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: 5265370, 5265371, 5265372, 5265373.