3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 2:00 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 300 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001 NOT MUCH TIME THIS MORNING AS MAJOR FLOOD/RIVER FLOOD EVENT CONTINUES ACROSS MAJORITY OF THE CWFA THIS MORNING. AS S/W CONTS TO SWING EWRD THIS MORNING LRG AREA OF CONVECTION WILL ADVANCE TOWARDS THE COAST. RAINFALL FROM THURSDAY NIGHT WAS 8-10 INCHES IN MANY NORTHERN AREAS AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR TODAY..MAINLY EASTERN SECT THIS MORNING THEN LATER THIS AFTERNOON OUT WEST. ALREADY SEEING ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WRN TX WITH ANOTHER S/W DROPPING SE. PWATS AT 2.50+ FROM 00Z SOUNDING AND FCST TO REMAIN ABOVE 2 INCHES INTO SATURDAY THEN A SLOW DECREASE. WITH LLJ AND UPPER TROF FCST TO BE A PLAYER THROUGH TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT. UPPER LEVEL DIFLUENCE AND GOOD MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WILL ALSO AID IN PRODUCTION OF RAINFALL. CONVECTION HEADING EAST THIS MORNING NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF BECOMING SEVERE WITH BOW FEATURE NOTED IN REFLECTIVITY DATA. DEWPTS AHEAD OF THIS LINE REMAIN IN THE UPPER 70S TO NEAR 80 THIS MORNING. TEMPS CONT TO BE HELD DOWN..DUE TO CLOUDS AND PCPN. THIS TREND WILL CONT. WINDS REMAIN SELY. MARINE...PRESS GRADIENT/LLJ STRONGER THIS MORNING THAN EXPECTED. WILL BUMP WINDS UP A NOTCH TO SCEC BAYS...SCA WATERS. LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APCHG THE COAST WILL EXIT BY MID MORNING LEAVING SUBSIDENCE IN ITS WAKE DURING THE AFTN. NXT S/W WILL MOVE IN LATER THIS AFTN WITH PRECIP CONFINED MAINLY OVER LAND AND THE BAYS. GIVEN CURRENT CONVECTIVE ATMOSPHERE WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. .CRP...FFA THROUGH FRIDAY TXZ229>234...TXZ239>247 GMZ250-255-270-275...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY. CRP TB 088/076 091/076 090 744 VCT TB 084/074 089/075 091 845 LRD EB 090/077 095/076 094 544 MSL..73 / KEG..70 / MB..80 / JM..75
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...COR TYPO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
1141 PM CDT THU AUG 30 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM 5 SE COTULLA TX .88 INCH HAIL
08/30/01 LA SALLE
1000 PM 2N MISSION VALLEY TX FLOOD
08/30/01 VICTORIA FM236 FLOODED NEAR FM237.
CARS STALLED.
1140 PM LAREDO TX FLOOD
08/30/01 WEBB MANY STREETS FLOODED IN
CITY
JMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI,TX
305 AM CDT FRI AUG 31 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0257 AM ALICE TX 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/31/01 JIM WELLS
0300 AM 5 N VICTORIA TX FLOOD
08/31/01 VICTORIA SPRING CREEK FLOWING 2
FEET OVER OLIVAR ROADThe Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:32 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Homes evacuated along FM 1554...also along CR 440.
Most roads throughout the county closed. Many parts of Alice flooded. Boats were being used to evacuate homes in the Rancho Alegre division west of Alice.
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: 5276147, 5276148, 5276149.