Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001

Name: Flash Flooding in Texas, August 31, 2001
Start: 2001-08-31T05:00
End: 2001-08-31T21:00
Location: Texas

August 31, 2001 · NWS CRP · 3 events in 1 county or zone

3 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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.

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 2:00 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 2:00 AM CST, 3 hours before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 11:16 PM CST, 5 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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

JM

Local storm report, Aug 31, 2:05 AM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY 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 ROAD

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:59 UTC.

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Event by event

3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Kleberg

When: August 31, 5:00 AM CST to 11:00 AM CST
Where: Kleberg County, Countywide
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 27.427, -97.668 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Most roads in the county closed.

Flash Flood, Kleberg

When: August 31, 11:00 AM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Kleberg County, Countywide
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 27.427, -97.668 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Flash Flood, Kleberg

When: August 31, 5:00 PM CST to 9:00 PM CST
Where: Kleberg County, Countywide
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 27.427, -97.668 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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

Every storm in Texas in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5276152, 5276153, 5276154.