Flash Flood, Reagan
- When
- August 31, 2:00 AM CST to 3:00 AM CST
- Where
- Reagan County, 1 mi S of Stiles
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.366, -101.523 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Texas, August 31, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 1:12 AM CST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:12 AM CST, 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 212 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 CONVECTION ASSOCD WITH PASSING 5H TROF MOVING SE OUT OF CWFA WITH CLUSTER OF TSRA STILL ACRS PECOS COUNTY. WEAKENING MID LEVEL FLOW TODAY SUGGEST TROF AXIS WILL LINGER ACRS SE 1/3 OF CWFA. WHILE MID/UPPER TROF PASSING THRU GREAT LAKES REGION WILL LEAVE 85H HGHT RISES IN CENTRAL PLAINS...IN TURN NE LOW LEVEL IS DEVELOPED IN W TX. AS SUCH WILL FAVOR PM POPS FROM KMAF W-SEWD. MODEL INSTABILITY IS LIMITED AT BEST...TEND TO THINK THIS IS UNDERDONE THOUGH SINCE ETA DID A POOR JOB INITIALIZING INSTABILITY. ELY UPSLOPE FLOW INTO THE MTNS WILL FAVOR 20% POPS AND WITH A LIGHT NW STEERING FLOW SHRA/TSRA MAY DRIFT INTO ADJACENT PLAINS. AVN/ETA LOW LEVEL DWPNT SOLUTIONS MARKEDLY DIFFERENT ACRS MTNS WITH AVN BEING MUCH MORE MOIST...WILL TEND TOWARD ETA WITH CURRENT GDP CONDITIONS MORE INLINE. WILL CONTINUE WILL GENERALLY DRY FCST IN LATER PERIODS AS ADVERTISED...AND WATCH FOR MORE CONSISTENT INDICATIONS OF SHRTWV TROFS IN NW FLOW ALOFT...POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS MONDAY? IN THE MEANTIME UPPER RIDGE STRENGTHENS ABIT WITH 5H HGHT RISES NOTED. MAF 87/67/89/66 1-0 LSA 86/65/88/65 --0 6R6 87/70/89/71 320 MRF 81/58/83/59 222 CNM 88/67/90/67 210 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:57 UTC.
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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 31, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 31, 2001
- Flash Flood in Alabama, August 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 31, 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: 5266490.